nested backticks in Makefile

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Tue Mar 27 17:56:00 GMT 2007


On 27 March 2007 18:25, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> "Dave Korn" <dave.korn@artimi.com> writes:
> 
>>   Or how about using ':=' to force immediate evaluation?
> 
> That won't help, since backquotes are only expanded by the shell, not by
> make.

  Doh.  Yes, we'd need immediate evaluation *and* $(shell ...).

    cheers,
      DaveK
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