On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 15:53 +0200, Reinier Post wrote: > On Tue Sep 10 08:13:36 2013, [email protected] (Paul Smith) wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 17:45 -0700, Adam Kellas wrote: > > > I'm having a problem using these two together. There's a program which > > > spits out a series of variable assignments so I need $(shell) to > > > invoke it, but the shell function strips newlines which garbles the > > > result. Example below. Ideas? > > > > > > % cat Makefile > > > $(eval $(shell ./vars.sh)) > > > > TMPFILE := $(shell var=`mktemp /tmp/mk.XXXXXX`; ./vars.sh > $$var; echo > > $$var) > > include $(TMPFILE) > > __d := $(shell rm -f $(TMPFILE)) > > I think I'd usually prefer an explicitly included makefile fragment. > > include vars.mk > > vars.mk: vars.sh > $< > $@ || rm -f $@
Yeah, that's a MUCH better solution. I got locked into the shell idea. Nice! Cheers. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
