Enviroment variables in subdirectories' Makefiles

如果您是通过搜索引擎找到这儿来的，我想您应该也是正在读 《Autotools: a practitioner's guide to GNU autoconf, automake, and libool》 这本书

我在这儿列出了一些书中我目前不太能理解的片段，如果您能留言解释，实在是感谢！

我自己也会不定期更新我对这些内容的理解。

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prefix = /usr/local
exec_prefix = $(prefix)
bindir = $(exec_prefix)/bin
export prefix
export exec_prefix
export bindir
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Listing 2-26: Makefile: Adding the bindir variable
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install:
install -d $(bindir)
install -m 0755 jupiter $(bindir)
uninstall:
-rm $(bindir)/jupiter
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Listing 2-27: src/Makefile: Adding the bindir variable

 

Even though we only use bindir in src/Makefile, we have to export prefix,  exec_prefix, and bindir because bindir is defined in terms of exec_prefix, which  is itself defined in terms of prefix. When make runs the install commands, it  will first resolve bindir to $(exec_prefix)/bin, then to $(prefix)/bin, and finally  to /usr/local/bin. Thus, src/Makefile needs to have access to all three variables  during this process.

我不太理解的是，bindir 在外层目录的Makefile中，被export到环境时，不是已经被展开（expanded）了吗，

为何文中还说，在src/Makefile中需要 “resolve bindir to $(exec_prefix)/bin, then to $(prefix)/bin, and finally” ？
to /usr/local/bin