On 2022-11-06 03:59, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
Just Base64-encode the value as, say, the make variable B64VAL and do
eval "$$(base64dec $(B64VAL))"
in the recipe or in a $(shell ...).
If that isn't palatable, invent some other encoding that is more
readable.
URL encoding: percent hex notation for control and special characters.
Quoted printable from MIME is another possibility.
You just have a dependency on the decoding tool.
Or make up something decodable by an awk or sed one liner. Awk has
environment access, and gmake can export.
That all sounds more complex than defining the three functions I
provided which can
quote a script that is readable as a literal value in a Makefile:
shquotequote = $(subst ','\'',$(1))
shnlquote = '$(subst $(newline),' ',$(call shquotequote,$(1)))'
shquote = "$$(printf '%s\n' $(call shnlquote,$(1)))"
--
Yorick
