Re: Deferred->immediate variable reassignment trick.

Paul Smith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.general
Organization GNU's Not UNIX!
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Wed, 2023-06-21 at 08:31 -0700, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> If I just have this:
> 
>   IMPORTANT_VAR := $(shell sh -c "echo calculate; echo executed
> 1>&2")
> 
> and do "make IMPORTANT_VAR=alternative", I still see "executed"
> on standard output.

IMO that is a bug and it should be reported as such on Savannah.
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