Re: About gnumake

[Paul D. Smith]

%% address@hidden writes:

  mc> I'm using gnumake and find that arithmetic expression "$(())" is
  mc> invalid in makefile ,while it's valid in shell.The same thing
  mc> happened to "declare" as well.Have you encountered this problem?

If you want to use $ in a shell script, you have to escape it ("$$"),
otherwise make expands it as if it were a make variable.  Use "$$(())".

See the GNU make manual for details.

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