Make and '#'

[Heiko Weber jun.]

jaenicke at w414zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Lutz Jaenicke) writes:


>In a Makefile I need to define a Makro to a string containing the '#'-sign,
>which is the comment-sign for make:
>FCFLAGS = ... -W0,-inline,#,-type ...

>Since '#' is the comment-sign, the '#' and all following stuff is suppressed
>by make. I tried everything I know about quoting (on shell-level), nothing
>worked. Is there any way to put '#' into my macro? (If of interest, I'm
>using Apollo Domain/OS 10.3)

Put '#' into a file (foo.bar in the example), and change the line above to

FOOBAR=`cat foo.bar`
FCFLAGS = ... -W0,-inline,$(FOOBAR),-type ...

on Esix, it works.

Heiko
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