How to escape ${something} (not to expand it) in a Makefile ?

Ion-Mihai Tetcu itetcu at people.tecnik93.com
Fri Jul 30 16:34:45 PDT 2004


On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:55:33 -0500
Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 22:36:46 +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu
> <itetcu at people.tecnik93.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm out of ideas with this. Bellow I need to have ${LOCALBASE} expanded
> > to its value and the rest of $... to be passed verbatim.
> > Each combination of quoting and escaping I've tried the last 2 1/2 hours
> > dons't work. Could someone please point me to the right doc to read or
> > explain how does this work ?
> > 
> > RUN_DEPENDS+='--with-delivery-agent=${LOCALBASE}/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -r ${sender} -m ${extension} ${user} $u'
> > 
> You would use  \$ to escape the dollar sign in a Makefile.

Nop, like this I get .... -e -r -m  - treated like vars.

>  Also you may need to use three \  ( \\\$ ).

I'll try this one.

> Also is the above RUN_DEPENDS for a port that your working on?
> If it is, then the RUN_DEPENDS is wrong, it is supposed to point to a
> program/port that it depends on at run time.
> 
> RUN_DEPENDS+= ${LOCALBASE}/cyrus/bin/deliver:${PORTSDIR}/security/cyrus-sasl
> 
> Then you use a CONFIGURE_ARG for the --with-delivery-agent setting.

Yes, copy/paste mistake.

Thanks,


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