Hello Vincent,
Perhaps someone here in help-gnu-utils will know the answer to your
question. I do not and therefore cannot answer. But I think you
would have an excellent result if you were to ask your question in the
help-m...@gnu.org mailing list. That is dedicated to GNU make and is
where all of the GNU make expertise is discussed. I suggest you ask
your question there.
If it were me I would do everything in the shell instead of trying to
do it in make. I would either use shell substitution or use sed or a
combination. In the end it probably depends upon what you know better.
case $option in *=) : okay, has equal ;; *) option=$option= ;; esac
Also, use of 'echo -n' isn't portable. Consider using 'printf' when
you don't want to print a newline for portable operation.
> my problem is with the for loop shown. OPTIONS variable has various
> fields in it. Some fields have a '=' in them ie. FOO=512 and some
> don't. Because I have a broken tool which gets confused by variables
> which don't have an equal sign in them I am trying to go through
> them and convert "FOO=512 BAR" into "FOO=512 BAR=".
Pesky CAD tools. :-)
> The trouble is that the findstring never finds anything and I get
> "FOO=512= BAR=". When I replace the whole findstring command with 1,
> I get the then case of the 'if' but no amount trial made findstring
> work. Any ideas what my problem is or how to do what I need
> differently?
Perhaps this?
DO_SIM:
[many echo commands] >> sim.tcl
for option in $(OPTIONS); do \
case \$option in *=) : has equal ;; *) option=\$option= ;; esac \
printf "%s" "$option" >> sim.tcl; \
done
[more echo command] >> sim.tcl
Or perhaps you could post process the file?
DO_SIM:
[many echo commands] >> sim.tcl
for option in $(OPTIONS); do \
echo "$option"; \
done | sed 's/$/=/;s/==*$/=/' | tr "\n" " " >> sim.tcl;
[more echo command] >> sim.tcl
Bob
