RE: $(shell) strips CRLF

[Bryan Miller]

Well it was a quick-n-dirty way to get a config_spec into a C data structure.

CONFIG_SPEC := $(shell cleartool catcs)

for some developers that wanted to be able to dump diagnostic info from a serial
port during remote field testing.  It's hard to read a cspec as one line
continuous line :-(

Cheers,
Bryan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul D. Smith [mailto:address@hidden Behalf
> Of Paul D.
> Smith
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 1:37 PM
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> Subject: Re: $(shell) strips CRLF
>
>
> %% "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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