Re: Crazy make rules with here documents, example.

[Mike Mestnik]

On 4/6/2010 12:37 PM, Stephan Beal wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Mike Mestnik <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     { printf "line1\n"; printf "line2\n"; } | cat > blah.tmp
>
>     { printf "line1\n"; printf "line2\n"; } | gcc...
>
>
>
> If you're using bash (and possibly some other shells), it's easier to:
>
> { print "..."; printf "..."; } > blah.tmp
> { print "..."; printf "..."; } | gcc ...
>
> i don't know if that syntax works in Bourne-compatibility mode.
Yes, I see the advantage here.  However this is almost exactly what I 
have... Except doing it with variables make it more transparent...

PFOPEN:={ print "
PFBR:="; printf "
PFCLOSE:="; } |

$(PFOPEN)...$(PFBR)...$(PFBR)...$(PFBR)...$(PFCLOSE)

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