[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
According to section 8.11 of the gnu manual, I should be able to use the
shell command to assign a variable. However, this doesn't work.
I've tried assigning the variable from outside a rule but the command
does not get executed and the variable is empty. The only time the
shell command is executed is from within a rule but variable assignments
within rule is not allowed.
contents := $(shell cat foo)
A more complete bug report than that would be good. $(shell) with a
variable assignment definitely does work, so something else must be
going on. Can you reply with a simple Makefile that fails for you.
John.
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