Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 20:25:03 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, Freebsd hackers list <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Here documents: do they work in FreeBSD make? Message-ID: <1448162703.1398.5.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <5650FB25.2060408@rawbw.com> References: <5650FB25.2060408@rawbw.com>
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On Sat, 2015-11-21 at 15:15 -0800, Yuri wrote:
> This syntax doesn't work for me:
> @cat <<EOF >${MY_DIR}/my-file \
> #!/bin/sh \
> \
> echo 'Hello World!' \
> EOF \
>
> ${MY_DIR}/my-file is created empty.
>
> Could anybody give me a hint what am I doing wrong?
>
The \ line-splicing is being done by make, the shell sees one long
string which has a comment delim right after the filename and no here
document at all. You should be able to see that if you take the @ off
the line (or make -dl).
-- Ian
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