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Re: Setting environment variables with Make


From: Tom Browder
Subject: Re: Setting environment variables with Make
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 14:32:40 -0600

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Paul Jarc <prj@po.cwru.edu> wrote:
> Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> wrote:
...
> This shold be expanding a shell variable, not a Makefile variable, so
> one more change is needed:
>
> foo:
>        bar=`output of some command`; \
>        echo $${bar}
>
> Or if you want to check for failure in the first command:
>
> foo:
>        bar=`output of some command` && \
>        echo $${bar}

I tried this:

JUNK = *~ core

clean:
<tab>rm $$(JUNK)

and no luck.

-Tom




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