Using sed in a Makefile

Jerry gesbbb at yahoo.com
Sat Mar 7 09:57:23 PST 2009


On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 18:11:16 +0100
Johan van Selst <johans at stack.nl> wrote:

>${..} will be interpreted by make - even when it is used between '..'
>which is probably not what you want here. If you want to use a litteral
>$-sign in your command, use $$ in the Makefile.

Thanks, that worked. I had tried escaping with a backwards slant '\';
however, that obviously did not work.

-- 
Jerry
gesbbb at yahoo.com

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	Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will
	want to use it.
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