%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hpvl> Sorry I left this out, Yes I had a filter function for comment lines in
hpvl> with # and empty lines:
hpvl> GREP = egrep -v '^ *$|#'
This is not correct, because you're not quoting the "$". Make will
expand the "$" and the next single character ("|") here as a variable
named "|", but that variable is obviously empty.
So, when you use this variable it really expands to:
egrep -v '^ *#'
which is not the same thing and probably explains why you're not
matching the right things. You need to use "$$" to escape the "$".
hpvl> first I had the line:
hpvl> MODULES = $(shell cat ../bin/module.hier | egrep -v '^$|#' )
hpvl> But then make complained about missing ).
hpvl> I thought that # in a shell function was allowed but it seems
hpvl> that make is interpreting everything after # as comment even if
hpvl> it is in a shell function??
This might be a bug; I'll have to look into it.
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