Re: [PATCH] test: don't use $(dir) in recipes.

Subject: Re: [PATCH] test: don't use $(dir) in recipes.

Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 10:17:55 -0300

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From: David Bremner


David Bremner <david@tethera.net> 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

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