Re: Strange behaviour with variable

[Paul D. Smith]

%% address@hidden writes:

  hpvl> Sorry I left this out, Yes I had a filter function for comment lines in
  hpvl> with # and empty lines: 
  hpvl> GREP = egrep -v '^ *$|#' 

This is not correct, because you're not quoting the "$".  Make will
expand the "$" and the next single character ("|") here as a variable
named "|", but that variable is obviously empty.

So, when you use this variable it really expands to:

  egrep -v '^ *#'

which is not the same thing and probably explains why you're not
matching the right things.  You need to use "$$" to escape the "$".

  hpvl> first I had the line: 
  hpvl> MODULES   = $(shell cat ../bin/module.hier | egrep -v '^$|#' ) 
  hpvl> But then make complained about missing ). 
  hpvl> I thought that # in a shell function was allowed but it seems
  hpvl> that make is interpreting everything after # as comment even if
  hpvl> it is in a shell function??

This might be a bug; I'll have to look into it.

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