On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:25:59PM +0530, N. Raghavendra wrote: > Is there an analogue in BSD `make' of the `call' function in `gmake': > $(call VARIABLE,PARAM,PARAM,...)?
Not as such. You can however use the '!=' operator to assign a value
to a variable based on the output of some external command:
RATIO != sh -c 'echo $$(( $a / $b ))'
Cheers,
Matthew
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