Re: problems with awk in a make file

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Colin Watson wrote:

> Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> wrote:
> >I'm having a problem that I just can't understand. I have a log file that
> >contains, among other things, the line:
> >
> >usf-tools 0.7.00
> >
> >I have a make file with the line:
> >
> >SVER := $(shell grep "usf-tools" ./logfile |awk 'NR == 1 { print $2 }')
>                                                                   ^^
> 
> This is untested, but that's probably your problem; $ is special in
> makefiles. Try $$2 and see if that works any better.

Everyone else appears to agree with you, and it works!

Thanks for the help. I seem to learn make one nit at a time ;-)

Luck,

Dwarf
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