Here documents: do they work in FreeBSD make?

[Ian Lepore]

On Sat, 2015-11-21 at 15:15 -0800, Yuri wrote:
> This syntax doesn't work for me:
>          @cat <<EOF >${MY_DIR}/my-file \
>            #!/bin/sh \
>            \
>            echo 'Hello World!'  \
>            EOF \
> 
> ${MY_DIR}/my-file is created empty.
> 
> Could anybody give me a hint what am I doing wrong?
> 

The \ line-splicing is being done by make, the shell sees one long
string which has a comment delim right after the filename and no here
document at all.  You should be able to see that if you take the @ off
the line (or make -dl).

-- Ian