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From: m5@lynx.uucp (Mike McNally)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: GNU make: substitution references
Message-ID: <5754@lynx.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 89 16:28:36 GMT
Reply-To: m5@lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally)
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Organization: Lynx Real-Time Systems Inc, Campbell CA
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It seems that GNU make (3.48) doesn't expand the value of a variable in 
a simple substitution reference:

BLAH=balloons
BLEE=$(BLAH)

 . . .

	echo $(BLEE:oo=OO)	# should be ballOOns, instead is $(BLAH)

I'm not sure what the "right" thing to do is; I have lots and lots of
Makefiles that use the feature as provided by our own brain-dead mutant
of "make", and it does do the expansion.  I added a call to
expand_argument() at the appropriate place in variable.c, but I'm
willing to hear arguments to the contrary.

-- 
Mike McNally                                    Lynx Real-Time Systems
uucp: {voder,athsys}!lynx!m5                    phone: 408 370 2233

            Where equal mind and contest equal, go.