[ On Fri, November 13, 1998 at 02:54:22 (+0200), Vadim Vygonets wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [EXIM] Testing version of Exim
>
> I haven't tried Solaris on Sparc yet. But I'm not really
> interested.
If it were any different I'd be surprised and exasperated at Sun! ;-)
> I'm interested in the conclusions below, and the
> fact that there is at least one version of make(1) in which
> `backticks` are the only way to do it.
I'd lost the original question in this thread, but now that I see what
you were asking about I think I can say that even this is not a truely
portable way of doing what you want.
If the "VAR = `cmd`" works for POSIX compatible "make"s then that's
about as good as you'll get.
Traditional Unix "make" assumed things like this would be set on the
command line (eg. "make VAR=`cmd` target"), and/or in a separately
generated makefile fragment that would be specified on the command line
using an additional "-f".
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