Re: bug in gnumake?? Using eval with wildcard function

[Paul D. Smith]

%% address@hidden writes:

  hpvl> tmp = $(wildcard cmd/*.tcl) 

  hpvl> DEP_CMD=$(foreach OBJ, % ,$(addprefix %, $(tmp))) 

  hpvl> The wildcard failes because it is only filled in once for the first %
  hpvl> only. 

None of the above is evaluated yet.  When it is, it will evaluate to:

  $(addprefix %, $(tmp))

Because your loop only executes once (you have only element, "%", in the
list of elements to be looped over), and you never actually use the loop
variable OBJ anywhere.  So, the foreach is a complete no-op in this
situation.

The addprefix will evaluate to:

  %$(wildcard cmd/*.tcl)

which, if you have foo.tcl, bar.tcl, and baz.tcl in your cmd directory
will result in:

  %cmd/foo.tcl bar.tcl baz.tcl

I assume that's not what you want.  I really don't have the faintest
idea what you're _TRYING_ to do, so I can't even begin to help.

Whatever you're trying to do, what you're doing above is _NOT_ going to
get you there.

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