Re: $(shell) strips CRLF

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Bryan Miller" <address@hidden> writes:

  bm> I have a makefile that performs a command like

  bm> FOO := $(shell cat foo)

  bm> where foo is a multiline ASCII text file.  For some reason the
  bm> $(shell) bit is stripping of the hex ODOA off the end of the lines
  bm> so FOO is just one long line.

Yes.  Think of $(shell ...) as make's answer to the shell's backticks
operation.

Having newlines in a make variable is not useful anyway.

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