Re: [MiNT] mintlib Makefile requires bash as shell

[Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi>]

Hi,

On Saturday 17 October 2009, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Unfortunately this patch makes compilation a bit slower, because before
> compiling each file make has to run SHELL and cat.

>From the patch:
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+INCLUDEPATH = $(shell cat $(top_srcdir)/includepath)
+# The following version is faster, but it works only if SHELL is bash
+# and it does not show the contents of includepath while compiling.
+#INCLUDEPATH = $$(<$(top_srcdir)/includepath)
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Use ":=" instead of "=".

Then it's evaluated only when assigned, not on every reference
of the variable.

(And use of "?=" would allow the value to be overridden from environment.)


	- Eero