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%% wsoto@uol.com.br (Walter Encinas) writes:

  we> I need to build a makefile with a make rule that uses a function
  we> result as a dependency.

  >> You can't.

  we> For the sake of curiosity, is any intrinsic reason why make
  we> doesn't have this feature?

Makes rules for the order in which it evaluates variables and functions
have been in existence since the program was first created, and are very
consistent.  Not to mention that the POSIX standard for make requires
them (in the case of variables--there are no such things as functions in
the POSIX standard.)

It would be extremely confusing, not to mention breaking many, many
existing makefiles, to change the order of expansion so that it's not
consistent any longer.  Expansion is hard enough to understand as it
is.


Anyway, the next version of GNU make contains a feature that allows you
to do what you want in a different way, without requiring a re-exec and
without mucking with expansion ordering.

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