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Re: Preventing recursive expansion of symbols containing "$"?


From: Paul D. Smith
Subject: Re: Preventing recursive expansion of symbols containing "$"?
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 01:02:16 -0400

%% Adrian Lumsden <address@hidden> writes:

  al> Any suggestions?

You have to escape the $.  Using two $'s ($$) will cause make to replace
it with one $ when it expands.  See the GNU make manual.

Yes, this means that in your environment you will need to put the $ in
twice.

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