Re: Using perl in a Makefile

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Shao Zhang wrote:
>     I know you can use shell script in a Makefile. My question is "Can I
> use perl then??"
>     If I can, how do I do it?? Just putting in the line
> #!/usr/bin/perl??
>     In that case, how does make knows its relevant code, and perl knows
> the part that belongs to it??

You can easily use perl in makefiles:

foo:
	perl -e '\
		# perl code here, each line followed by \
		# a slash \
	'

Just make sure you escape all $ character in your perl code by doubling
them. This makes it look a bit ugly of course. I'm guilty of writing as much
as 1 page chunks of perl code into makefiles.

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see shy jo