Re: Puzzling $(shell echo *) vs $(wildcard *) in phase 1

[David]

On 2 October 2013 09:38, David <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2 October 2013 00:35, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 21:42 +1000, David wrote:
>>>
>>> Can anyone explain what is happening here?
>>
>> My suspicion is that this is a result of make's directory caching.  The
>> wildcard function reads through the directory cache to get the results
>> of the wildcard match.
>
> Thank you very much for your helpful and prompt reply, which cleared
> this doubt from stopping my work progressing further.

In case it helps anyone else, I found more explanation here:
http://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/trouble-wildcard?page=0%2C1