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From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
Subject: Re: bin/8155: current make fails with "Error expanding embedded variable"
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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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