RE: $(shell) strips CRLF

[Bryan Miller]

Thanks Eli,

I have read the documentation and noted the entry regarding s/\n/ /g.  The GNU
Make manual is the most dogeared reference on my desk outside of Johan's Perl
Pocket Reference.  I guess my question could have been more carefully worded.  
Is
there a similar way to grab something from an OS call and not strip the new line
characters?  Paul says "no" so I will look for a solution outside of make.

Thanks much,
Bryan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Eli
> Zaretskii
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> Subject: Re: $(shell) strips CRLF
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>
> > From: "Bryan Miller" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:51:40 -0700
> >
> > I have a makefile that performs a command like
> >
> > FOO := $(shell cat foo)
> >
> > where foo is a multiline ASCII text file.  For some reason the
> > $(shell) bit is stripping of the hex ODOA off the end of the lines
> > so FOO is just one long line.
>
> This is how $(shell) is supposed to behave, it's clearly documented
> in the node "Shell Function" of the Make manual.
>
> > Does anyone have any recommendations?
>
> Please explain why removing the newlines is a problem in your case.
>