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Re: String equality and make

From: Paul Jarc
Subject: Re: String equality and make
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:27:49 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) 
"Brian L. Troutwine" <goofyheadedpunk@gmail.com> 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)


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