Re: Question About Gmake Internals

Jon Forrest <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Sep 2021 09:01:28 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On 9/2/21 10:29 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> A variable set is just a set of 'make' variable definitions. You can 
> think of it as a partial function from variable names to information 
> about each variable. See variable.c for details.

Thanks, Paul. I've been looking at variable.c but it isn't clear to me
when and why it's necessary to create a new variable set.

(I knew you when you were at UCSB. I hope things are going well.)

Jon