Re: [PATCH v3 03/23] Makefile: use "=" not ":=" for po/* and perl/*

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