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#                                                                    -*-perl-*-

$description = "Test the value function.";

$details = "This is a test of the value function in GNU make.
This function will evaluate to the value of the named variable with no
further expansion performed on it.\n";

open(MAKEFILE,"> $makefile");

print MAKEFILE <<'EOF';
export FOO = foo

recurse = FOO = $FOO
static := FOO = $(value FOO)

all: ; @echo $(recurse) $(value recurse) $(static) $(value static)
EOF

close(MAKEFILE);

&run_make_with_options($makefile, "", &get_logfile);

# Create the answer to what should be produced by this Makefile
$answer = "FOO = OO FOO = foo FOO = foo FOO = foo\n";


&compare_output($answer,&get_logfile(1));

1;