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From: weimer@garden.ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer (253-7796))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Make and '#'
Message-ID: <1991May7.202818.10562@ssd.kodak.com>
Date: 7 May 91 20:28:18 GMT
References: <470@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de>
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In article <470@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de>,
jaenicke@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@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )