Re: strange "out of order" output using "info" command in a rule

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sat, 12 Oct 2019, Paul Smith wrote:

> On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 08:13 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   weirdly(?), there is a target which first runs a number of simple
> > linux commands (rm, mkdir, ...), then invokes "foreach" a couple
> > times to call some functions.
> >
> >   i say "weirdly" because the output shows the "foreach" invocations
> > being run (they invoke their own "info" calls) *before* the linux
> > commands.
>
> When you say "foreach" I assume you are referring to GNU make
> $(foreach ...) functions?

  yessir.

> That's expected.  GNU make will expand the entire recipe first,
> including all lines of the recipe, before starting any shell
> commands.
>
> There's an issue in Savannah about this.  It's a source of much
> confusion and I wondered if it would break things to change it.
> But so far it's just idle curiosity.

  got it. i suspected it was something like that, just wanted to be
sure.

rday