Hi,

I am having problems with Makefiles in which I am referring to variables that are defined in other Makefiles. Sometimes it is working and I get the correct value, but for some packages I am getting an empty string. 

So for testing I set up two identical packages "automoddel" and "automaddel" (see attachment).  The only difference is the "a" and the "o", everything else is 100% the same. Then in another Makefile I refer to variables of these packages like this:

TEST1 := $(AUTOMADDEL_VERSION)
TEST2 := $(AUTOMODDEL_VERSION)

Now the curious thing is that "TEST1" contains the correct version "trunk", but "TEST2" is contains an empty string:

"ptxdist print TEST1" returns: trunk
"ptxdist print TEST2" returns:               (nothing)

If I change := to = the problem is gone, but that still not explains why the := assignment is working for one package but not for another.
Maybe someone has a clue about that? I am using ptxdist-2011.09.0.

Thanks in advance, 
Richard