Re: Math and GMake

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 09:22:15AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> 
> I knew there had to be a simple command for this somewhere.  Thanks.
> But my problem is more general.  I cannot use bash or zsh where the
> double parentheses notation is available.  I would also like to come
> up with a better way to do math in gmake.
> 
> Also, I forgot to mention that the the above example does require gmake
> 3.80 or later.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> Ken

What exactly do you need?

Why can't you settle for one invocation of an external program? 

You can always write that program yourself in c/awk/perl/bc/whatever.

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