On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 22:52 -0800, Philip Guenther wrote:
> The solution is to hide the semicolon from the first round of make
> expansion, ala:
> 
> .SECONDEXPANSION:
> semi=;
> foobar: $$(shell echo prereq$${semi})
>        touch $@ 

Another solution that works here is to use backslashes:

        foobar: $$(shell echo prereq\;)

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