Re: bmake question

Aleksey Cheusov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.pkgsrc.wip.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Yep, := will work!  I am finding that programming in makefiles
> definitely has its own quirks.

I personally treat bmake as a mix of several things:
- lazy text preprocessor (variable expansions, .if and .for operators)
- suffix rules expansion
- bulding targets given dependency graph with actions on edges
  on input

Such view may make things easier

-- 
Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.

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