Gentlemen,
I stand corrected. I did a simple test from a Dos shell I it does work.
I have also determined that it doesn't work from the Eclipse plug-in that was built in-house at my company. This was why I reported it. Now I get to report it to our tools group instead.
Thanks for you time and effort and sorry for not verifying this from the Dos shell first.
Kent.
Kent A. Crockett
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| Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
11/03/2006 09:47 AM
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 08:45:02 -0600
>
> According to section 8.11 of the gnu manual, I should be able to use the
> shell command to assign a variable. However, this doesn't work.
It does for me.
> I've tried assigning the variable from outside a rule but the command does
> not get executed and the variable is empty. The only time the shell
> command is executed is from within a rule but variable assignments within
> rule is not allowed.
>
> contents := $(shell cat foo)
Please show the shortest self-contained Makefile that can be used to
reproduce the problem, and please tell what port of which version of
Make do you have installed. The $shell function works for me in Make
3.81 compiled with MinGW port of GCC.
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