Re: bmake question

Joerg Sonnenberger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.wip.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 01:29:44PM -0500, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
> I'm getting an error about a variable being recursive.  Does this mean
> I can't massage a variable and assign the result to itself??

Yes and no.

Valid: FOO+= something
Valid: FOO:= ${FOO} something
Invalid: FOO= ${FOO} something

Joerg

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