RE: Expansion of recursively expanded variables

2002-02-26 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Matt Hastie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mh> My apologies, plain text it is. Unfortunately that didn't do the job :(. Are you using Outlook? If you ever figure out how to convince Outlook to not send HTML versions of mail, please tell me. I've never used it myself, but I've never known a

RE: Expansion of recursively expanded variables

2002-02-26 Thread Matt Hastie
Title: RE: Expansion of recursively expanded variables My apologies, plain text it is. I'm using the $(shell ...) function to provide make with information that cannot be determined via built-in functions. Examples of these functions look like: define javacc-package-from-jj-file $(i

Re: Expansion of recursively expanded variables

2002-02-26 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% Matt Hastie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pls. try to avoid sending HTML to the mailing list; plain text is quite sufficient. Thanks! mh> foo: mh> @echo "test" > bar mh> @echo "bar = $(shell cat bar)" mh> I get the following error: mh> $ make mh> cat: cannot open bar mh> ba