Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 06:50:01 -0700 (PDT) From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/8155: current make fails with "Error expanding embedded variable" Message-ID: <199810051350.GAA06355@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/8155; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To: rch@richard.eu.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/8155: current make fails with "Error expanding embedded variable"
Date: 05 Oct 1998 15:47:53 +0200
rch@richard.eu.org writes:
> Current make fails with "Error expanding embedded variable" if founds $ in variable name, for example
> ARCHITECTURE=$(shell arch="`if test -x /usr/bin/dpkg; \
> then dpkg --print-architecture; else uname -m; fi`" \
> && if [ "$${arch%%i?86}"y = y ]; then arch=i386; fi \
> && echo "$$arch")
This looks very SysVish. The Right Way to do this in BSD make is:
ARCHITECTURE != \
arch="`if test -x /usr/bin/dpkg; \
then dpkg --print-architecture; else uname -m; fi`" \
&& if [ "$${arch%%i?86}"y = y ]; then arch=i386; fi \
&& echo "$$arch"
Anyway, that piece of code is a horrible kludge IMHO (and totally
unnecessary in FreeBSD)
DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no
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