From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 01:57:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/23] Makefile: use "=" not ":=" for po/* and perl/*
Message-ID: <20211117015724.ts6ek3wap2ljyhy2@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <patch-v3-03.23-510499d18ba-20211116T114334Z-avarab@gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 01:00:03PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> Change these variable definitions from being simply-expanded to be
> recursively expanded instead. I.e. they'll be lazily expanded when
> used.
> 
> I added these in 5e9637c6297 (i18n: add infrastructure for translating
> Git with gettext, 2011-11-18) and 20d2a30f8ff (Makefile: replace
> perl/Makefile.PL with simple make rules, 2017-12-10), the reason for
> using ":=" over "=" was that I didn't know the difference in 2011 (I
> think I copied some POC code), and in 2017 I used the 2011 commit for
> reference.

FWIW, with those variables being used as dependencies, I don't think this
makes a difference in practice.

Mike