RE: Can I have a variable and target the same name

[PATTON, BILLY \(SBCSI\)]

Paul,
  Thank you for your responses.  Before I took this job I  thought I
knew something
about make.  I have learned a lot in the last month and can see where I
had
some very simple examples before.   Long unnecessarily long,  it was
just easier.
But now to avoid a 50k+ long makefile I need all the "tricks" I can use.
Makes for 
a much more complex file but by reducing every source to lists and using
the eval to 
generate rules, it simplifies extending all sources.

Before this job I thought I was at @ a 7, on a scale of 1..10 for
knowledge/use of make.
Now I realize I was maybe a 3.
I'm climbing, consider myself at about a 6 now.

By the time this is over in August, I may even volunteer to help support
make.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Smith [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Paul D. Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:42 AM
> To: PATTON, BILLY (SBCSI)
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Can I have a variable and target the same name
> 
> 
> %% "PATTON, BILLY \(SBCSI\)" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   pb> Can I have a variable and a target be the same name
> 
> Sure.  Variables and targets are in completely different namespaces.
> There can be no confusion since a variable reference is 
> prefixed with a
> "$".
> 
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