Hi All,
I have a feeling this is going to be a silly question but it's baflling me,
and I haven't been able to find something similar on the archives and
googling.
I'm running "GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland
McGrath.
Built for i386-redhat-linux-gnu" and the contents of my makefile are basic.
VAR :=
newtest:
@echo "Determing the OS:"
VAR := $(shell uname)
@echo "The end."
I'm just trying to save the output from the shell command uname and stuff it
into a make variable (VAR := $(shell uname)).
However when running this, it seems as though make is trying to execute the
variable that I assigned the output too.
*Determing the OS:
VAR := Linux
make: VAR: Command not found
make: *** [newtest] Error 127
*
Anyone happen to know offhand what I'm doing wrong here? I know it is
something simple but just can't see it.
Thanks in advance,
-Randy
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