On 04/13/2015 04:24 PM, Arthur Schwarz wrote:
>
> I am trying to echo:
> echo 'exit $status' >> file
>
> from the Makefile generated by Makefile.am. What I get is:
> echo 'exit $status' >> file
>
> in the Makefile, which is correct, but in execution (make check) I get
> exit tatus
>
> in file. I have tried variations of $status to no avail. Any idea how I can
> get the correct result in file?
The same as any other time you want a literal $ to be passed through to
the shell when writing Makefile snippets: escape the $ with another $,
so that 'make' won't try to treat it as an expansion of ${s} at make time:
foo:
echo 'exit $$status' >> file
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
