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On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 06:25:52PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Sun, Feb 06, Tom Rini wrote:
> 
> > My first guess then is there's a dependancy problem, as make tags should
> > just invoke ctags or so, yes?
> 
> The variable is evaluated, even if it is not used.
> Just run 'make ARCH=ppc tags' and see yourself.

Right.  But we only care about that if we're going to compile anything,
so perhaps we need to change the test somehow to only get evaluated when
needed (ala the -mcpu stuff?  Or is that always run as well?).

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Tom Rini
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