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From:   Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
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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