RE: why does $$(shell bomb with a semicolon during SECONDEXPANSION?

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 14:51 -0800, Mark Galeck (CW) wrote:
> Hmm, I did try that, did not work for me, same error (but Philip's solution 
> works)
> 
> >Another solution that works here is to use backslashes:
> 
>         foobar: $$(shell echo prereq\;)

Ah right.  That's a bug that was fixed since 3.82 was released.  Works
now in the current latest sources:

$ cat Makefile
.SECONDEXPANSION:
all: $$(shell echo prereq\;)
        @echo hi

$ ~/src/make/make-rel/make
make: *** No rule to make target `prereq', needed by `all'.  Stop.

But Philip's solution works as well as you point out.

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