On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 09:48 +0000, Alexis Huxley wrote:

> So, now the question: Is there a way to either:
> 
>       1) prevent $(shell ...) from making the newline to 
>          space substitution, or
> 
>       2) pack multiple assigments onto one line without 
>          later assigments being interpreted as part of the
>          right-hand side of the first assigment

No, neither of those things is possible.

IMO the best solution is to use the include method you mentioned.  If
you prefer you can bundle it all up into a user-defined function,
including removing the file (with $(shell rm ...)) after it's been
included.

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