Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:44:51 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "N. Raghavendra" <raghu@mri.ernet.in> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: `call' function in `make' Message-ID: <20040525144451.GA49822@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <16563.20591.846129.789297@riemann.mri.ernet.in> References: <16563.20591.846129.789297@riemann.mri.ernet.in>
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On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:25:59PM +0530, N. Raghavendra wrote:
> Is there an analogue in BSD `make' of the `call' function in `gmake':
> $(call VARIABLE,PARAM,PARAM,...)?
Not as such. You can however use the '!=3D' operator to assign a value
to a variable based on the output of some external command:
RATIO !=3D sh -c 'echo $$(( $a / $b ))'
Cheers,
Matthew
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