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

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

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

This will simply produce three \\\
checking for delivery agent... /usr/local/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -r \\\ -m \\\ \\\ \\\
Double dollars works.

Thanks everyone.

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