I'm a happy user of the $(file) function and multiline macros/variables
likes this:
..
define FOO_PACKAGE
exec_prefix=$(FOO_ROOT)
libdir=$${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=$${exec_prefix}/inc
Version: $(FOO_VERSION)
Libs: $${libdir}/$(FOO_LIB)
endef
write_pkg:
$(file > ./foo.pc, $(strip $(FOO_PACKAGE)))
Since I suspect some older pkgconfig programs doesn't like the leading
spaces in foo.pc, I'm using $(strip). But this also removes the newlines.
My make-manual documents that "white space" gets stripped off. IMHO
make 4.x has a too strict definition of white-space. Or have I misunderstood
how $(strip) is supposed to work?
But I could always have 'define FOO_PACKAGE'
without the leading spaces and do:
write_pkg:
$(file > ./foo.pc,$(FOO_PACKAGE))
But I prefer the nice indent.
--gv
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