Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 09:31:53 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: make - reassign variable using if-then ? Message-ID: <20090506083152.GA48658@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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I've this simple makefile:
VAR=one
all : main
main :
@echo ${.CURDIR}
.if ${.CURDIR}
@echo ${VAR}
VAR=two
@echo ${VAR}
.endif
When I output VAR second time, the value is still "one", and not the
new value "two". Why?
% make
/usr/home/mexas
one
VAR=two
one
And gmake gives an error:
% gmake
makefile:7: *** missing separator. Stop.
%
please help
many thanks
anton
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