Dave Korn wrote: > 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 ...). Agreed. Paolo