Odd behaviour of $$basename($$PWD)

[tallia1]

Is it just me or there is something fundametally flawed within qmake?

CHUNK OF PRO FILE
@
message($$PWD)
FILE = $$PWD
message($$basename(FILE))
message($$basename($$PWD))
@

QMAKE OUTPUT
@
Project MESSAGE: /Users/ata2/workspace/starlab/plugins/plugin_surfacemesh_io_off
Project MESSAGE: plugin_surfacemesh_io_off
Project MESSAGE: @

[p-himik]

Try this instead:
@message($$PWD)
FILE = $$PWD
message($$basename(FILE))
message($$basename(PWD))@

[tallia1]

LoL that was dumb :)
Thanks for pointing it out

Still I find it a bit odd. I would have imagined that
variables needed to be dereferenced when passing
them to functions :\

[p-himik]

That would lead to need to create separate variables for such functions as message() and warning().

[tallia1]

Not sure I fully understand your argument here.
Indeed we use
@ message($$VARIABLE) @
and not
@ message(VARIABLE) @

[p-himik]

Oh, sorry, i misread your previous post.