%% S�bastien Douheret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
sd> SEARCH_DATE := `cat ${H_FILE_VERSION} | grep ${PRJ_DATE}`
Make doesn't do ``. This just sets SEARCH_DATE to the actual string
"`cat ${H_FILE_VERSION} | grep ${PRJ_DATE}`", which obviously is never
empty.
If you want to actually run a shell command you need to use the GNU make
$(shell ...) function, not backticks.
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