Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 02:41:48 +0300
From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com>
To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>
Cc: ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: How to escape ${something} (not to expand it) in a Makefile ?
Message-ID: <20040731024148.29430042@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
In-Reply-To: <790a9fff04073012556938b2c3@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20040730223646.5db579fe@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <790a9fff04073012556938b2c3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:55:33 -0500
Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 22:36:46 +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu
> <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm out of ideas with this. Bellow I need to have ${LOCALBASE} expanded
> > to its value and the rest of $... to be passed verbatim.
> > Each combination of quoting and escaping I've tried the last 2 1/2 hours
> > dons't work. Could someone please point me to the right doc to read or
> > explain how does this work ?
> >
> > RUN_DEPENDS+='--with-delivery-agent=${LOCALBASE}/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -r ${sender} -m ${extension} ${user} $u'
> >
> You would use \$ to escape the dollar sign in a Makefile. Also you
> may need to use three \ ( \\\$ ).
This will simply produce three \\\
checking for delivery agent... /usr/local/cyrus/bin/deliver -e -r \\\ -m \\\ \\\ \\\
Double dollars works.
Thanks everyone.
--
IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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