On 08/08/2012 07:25, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Actually, that raises an important point, because the constructed > variable names like 'mysql55-client_SET' should perhaps have > syntactically significant characters like '-', '+' mapped to '_'
Interesting. A very quick test shows that make(1) variables seem to
work just fine despite those significant characters:
% cat Makefile
Foo-bar= wibble
Baz+QUX= flonk
all:
@echo ${Foo-bar}
@echo ${Baz+QUX}
% make
wibble
flonk
That came as quite a surprise to me.
Cheers,
Matthew
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