On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 15:14 -0500, Marc Smith wrote:
> I guess for maintenance reasons -- storing a shell command in a
> variable makes it easier to take care of if that shell command ever
> changes; that way I won't have to update the same shell command in X
> places. I can just modify it in one spot.
No one said you shouldn't use a variable. By all means, DO use a
variable. That's good stuff.
Just don't use the $(shell ...) function.
Like this:
SHOWTIME = date
all:
@ $(SHOWTIME)
@ sleep 10
@ $(SHOWTIME)
Cheers!
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