Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 02:34:15 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to escape ${something} (not to expand it) in a Makefile ? Message-ID: <20040731023415.0ad8ed19@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff04073012556938b2c3@mail.gmail.com> References: <20040730223646.5db579fe@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <790a9fff04073012556938b2c3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:55:33 -0500 Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 22:36:46 +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu > <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm out of ideas with this. Bellow I need to have ${LOCALBASE} expanded > > to its value and the rest of $... to be passed verbatim. > > Each combination of quoting and escaping I've tried the last 2 1/2 hours > > dons't work. Could someone please point me to the right doc to read or > > explain how does this work ? > > > > RUN_DEPENDS+='--with-delivery-agent=${LOCALBASE}/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -r ${sender} -m ${extension} ${user} $u' > > > You would use \$ to escape the dollar sign in a Makefile. Nop, like this I get .... -e -r -m - treated like vars. > Also you may need to use three \ ( \\\$ ). I'll try this one. > Also is the above RUN_DEPENDS for a port that your working on? > If it is, then the RUN_DEPENDS is wrong, it is supposed to point to a > program/port that it depends on at run time. > > RUN_DEPENDS+= ${LOCALBASE}/cyrus/bin/deliver:${PORTSDIR}/security/cyrus-sasl > > Then you use a CONFIGURE_ARG for the --with-delivery-agent setting. Yes, copy/paste mistake. Thanks, -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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