[Omake] Question about string literals in rules

[Aleksey Nogin]

On 02.10.2007 04:56, Alain Frisch wrote:

> It seems that string literals in rule bodies force the evaluation of
> functional applications. E.g. simply calling "omake" with this OMakefile
> 
> foo(bar) =
>   echo $(bar)
>   return 1
> 
> .PHONY: all
>     echo $"$(foo XXX)"
> 
> would display XXX even if the rule is not run. Is this the intended
> behavior?

I am not sure. Jason - do we want this to happen?

> Is there a way to suspend the application?

Put it inside a section:

.PHONY: all
  section
    echo $"$(foo XXX)"

Aleksey