[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Non-recursive makefiles

[Balatoni Denes]

Hi!

Friday 28 March 2008 19:19-kor M?ns Rullg?rd ezt ?rta:
> Balatoni Denes wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Maybe I misunderstand something, but ...
> >
> > Friday 28 March 2008 03:02-kor M?ns Rullg?rd ezt ?rta:
> >> +$(SUBDIR)$(SLIBNAME): $(SUBDIR)$(SLIBNAME_WITH_MAJOR)
> >> +       $(LN_S) $(SLIBNAME_WITH_MAJOR) $$@
> >
> > if I am not mistaken, things like this won't work, when this rule is
> > included several times in the toplevel Makefile, because only the last
> > value of $(NAME) at the end of parsing the makefile - and hence
> > $(SLIBNAME_WITH_MAJOR) - will be used in the command -- and not the value
> > of $(NAME) and $(SLIBNAME_WITH_MAJOR) at the time of parsing the
> > rule&command.
>
> Why don't you try it out?  It works.

Okay, so it indeed works. I have a question though - maybe you can answer it, 
because I can't quite figure out the reason. So if you apply the attached 
patch than the symlinking will fail the way I described. So why does it 
happen with this - supposedly harmless (although pointless) - patch, but not 
without??

bye
Denes
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