Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 20:15:49 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net> Subject: Re: Somewhat OT: Using Pipes Inside a GNU Make File Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209052012510.1779@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <50480361.8030601@tundraware.com> References: <5047E804.7050406@tundraware.com> <5047ED29.2040001@shatow.net> <50480361.8030601@tundraware.com>
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On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
> On 09/05/2012 07:24 PM, Bryan Drewery wrote:
>> On 9/5/2012 7:02 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>>> A bit off topic, but I'm kind of stuck. I am using gmake and want to
>>> do something like this:
>>>
>>> FOO := $(shell a | b | c)
>>>
>>> But this appears not to work. Only the 'a' command is executed. The
>>> remainder
>>> of the pipeline is ignored. Is there some clean way to implement this
>>> kind of thing?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I use this in a GNUMakefile and it works fine.
>>
>> BRANCH := $(shell git branch --no-color | grep "^*" | sed -e 's/^\* //')
>>
>>
>> You may need to post a more specific example.
>>
>> Bryan> _______________________________________________
>
> Here's the line that is failing:
>
> 2LATEX = $(shell which rst2latex.py rst2latex | tr '\012' ' ' | awk '{print $1}') --stylesheet=parskip
Bryan's example is using := for assignment.
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