In bash at least using double-quotes results in the evaluation of symbols, whereas single-quotes doesn't. I suspect it's the same for make. I can change it if you like though.
Nick On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Russell Whitaker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Marc Jones wrote: > >> Hi Nickolas, >> >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Nickolas Lloyd <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Sorry about the mangling, I've attached the patch this time. >>> >> >>> + @echo "Built coreboot for $(CONFIG_MAINBOARD_VENDOR) >>> $(CONFIG_MAINBOARD_PART_NUMBER)" >> >> I think that you want the variables outside the "". >> > At least here the echo command ignores the quotes. > Try this: > export ARCH=i686 > then > echo my arch is $ARCH > echo "my arch is $ARCH" > echo "my arch" is $ARCH > all yeald the same result: my arch is i686 > > Russ > -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

