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From: "Jürgen Beisert" <jbe@pengutronix.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Cc: "Richard Günther" <richard.guenther@garz-fricke.com>
Subject: Re: [ptxdist] Problem with variable reference in Makefiles
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 09:07:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201310310907.54489.jbe@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D99582E5322435468A77E74BB0039E7B3E5B712394@SRV02.hamburg.garz-fricke.de>

Hi Richard,

On Thursday 31 October 2013 08:35:21 Richard Günther wrote:
> > It has nothing to do with ptxdist, it is make related. Please read [1] to
> > understand the difference between '=' and ':=' assignment.
> >
> > The difference of TEST1 and TEST2 is the 'A' vs. 'O'. Have you tried to
> > add for example AUTOMBDDEL or AAUTOMADDEL?
>
> Thank you, now the difference between := and = is clear to me.
>
> I tried with "AUTOMBDDEL" and "AAUTOMADDEL" but they both did not work. I
> also tried using a variable from "XORG_SERVER" which worked very well. It
> is kind of strange, but not a major problem though. I just thought someone
> would know about the problem or has a clue what is causing this.

The tool 'make' includes all rule files in a specific order. And I guess also 
the locale has some effect on this order. But PTXdist ensures the local is set 
to 'C'.

Did you only try with different _variable_ names or with different _rule_file_ 
names as well?

Regards,
Juergen

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2013-10-31  7:35 Richard Günther
2013-10-31  8:07 ` Jürgen Beisert [this message]
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2013-10-31  9:21 Richard Günther
2013-10-29 14:37 Richard Günther
2013-10-29 14:49 ` Andreas Bießmann

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