From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE2E431FBD for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2014 06:18:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NUesocrAWNiu for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2014 06:17:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yantan.tethera.net (yantan.tethera.net [199.188.72.155]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7568D431FBC for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2014 06:17:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remotemail by yantan.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WMdc6-0003vt-RM; Sun, 09 Mar 2014 10:17:58 -0300 Received: (nullmailer pid 8516 invoked by uid 1000); Sun, 09 Mar 2014 13:17:55 -0000 From: David Bremner To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] test: don't use $(dir) in recipes. In-Reply-To: <1394287239-17850-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> References: <1394287239-17850-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.17+111~g93cd619 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 10:17:55 -0300 Message-ID: <87iorna4u4.fsf@zancas.localnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 13:18:06 -0000 David Bremner writes: > According the semantics of make, the expansion of $(dir) in recipes > uses dynamic scope, i.e. the value at the time the recipe is run. This > means if test/Makefile.local is not the last sub-makefile included, > all heck breaks loose. > --- > > This was originally part of some suggested changes to Jani's folder > series, but no reason to wait for Jani and I to sort that out. pushed, possibly just at the point when it did make sense to wait d