At Sunday 08 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > > foo=`extract_makefile_deps tgt2 Makefile`; echo x"$foo"x
> > >
> > > More or less, yes. I'd avoid the command substitution fork by
> > > letting extract_makefile_deps set some variable instead of
> > > printing.
> >
> > So the we'd have move the comamnd substitution inside the
> > function? ;-)
>
> No. You save a fork with
>
> foo ()
> {
> ...
> foo_result=bar
> }
>
> foo ARG...
> test "$foo_result" = ...
>
Yes, but how do you get foo_result in our case? ;-)
> which we've been doing a lot in Libtool and Autoconf lately.
Yes, but using XSI variable substitutions and shell arithmetic, not
complex sed scripts.
Or am I missing something?
Regards,
Stefano
