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Re: Setting environment variables with Make
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Ralf Wildenhues |
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Re: Setting environment variables with Make |
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Sat, 7 Mar 2009 20:52:08 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
Hello August,
* August Karlstrom wrote on Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 02:19:06PM CET:
> I'm trying to store a value between two commands for a production rule
> in a makefile. The following does not work though.
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> foo:
> bar=`output of some command`
> echo $(bar)
Each command line in a rule is executed by a separate shell invocation.
So use e.g.,
foo:
bar=`output of some command`; \
echo $(bar)
Cheers,
Ralf