Re: escape hash mark

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Friday 19 August 2011, Daniel Neuberger wrote:
> On 08/19/2011 02:30 PM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > Does the following works?
> >
> >    HASHMARK = \#
> >    SOMEVAR = "$(HASHMARK)some comment"
> >    SOMEVAR += "other stuff"
> Yes, thanks for the tip.
> 
> > Anyway, consider that there is no portable way to place a literal `#' in
> > a make variable; for example:
> Thanks for the pointer.  I think the method I had would be portable, right?
> 
Well, no, `$(shell ...)' is a GNU make extension.  Your best bet is still
`\#' (maybe with the indirection necessary to prevent automake from mangling
it), since it seems to work with BSD make too.

Regards,
  Stefano