Re: String equality and make

"Brian L. Troutwine" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Thank you very much, Paul.

Brian

Paul Jarc wrote:

> "Brian L. Troutwine" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>         TYPE := `cat /tmp/bag_type`
> 
> This uses the literal value "`cat /tmp/bag_type`"; backticks aren't
> special to make.  You want this instead:
> TYPE := $(shell cat /tmp/bag_type)
> 
> 
> paul
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