Re: make not expanding variables

[Philip Guenther]

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On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Philip Guenther <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Vance Turnewitsch <address@hidden
> > wrote:
>>
>> I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 64bit with make version 3.81-8.1ubuntu1.1 and was
>> failing to build bitbake recipes. I narrowed it down to an odd problem
>> with
>> make not expanding variables. I've attached a sample make file (makefile)
>> with the "problem."
>>
>> When I use this makefile, I get a directory "{hi,hi2}" within TestMake but
>> instead there should be two directories within TestMake created: "hi" and
>> "hi2", correct?
>>
>
> Well, that depends on the behavior of the shell that your system's 'make'
> is compiled to use by default as ${SHELL}.
>




>
>> As an example from the actual project, I have attached Makefile_real. This
>> is a copy of a make file within the project. The problem is the line:
>>
>> cp -f {mcc_linux.h,mcc_common.h,mcc_config.h}
>> $(DESTDIR)/usr/include/linux/
>>
>> which I have commented out in the file and replaced it with three calls to
>> copy the files individually. The make file runs fine with the individual
>> copying. Other files though that use {} are failing as well...and the
>> content within the {} are much more complexthan this simple manual
>> copying.
>>
>> Thus, any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vance Turnewitsch
>>
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