Make and '#'

Gary Weimer 253-7796 weimer at garden.ssd.kodak.com
Wed May 8 06:28:18 AEST 1991


In article <470 at mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de>,
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)

FCFLAGS = ... -W0,-inline,\#,-type ...

works in SunOS

weimer at ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )



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