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From: hnridder@cs.ruu.nl (Ernst de Ridder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Make and '#'
Message-ID: <1991May08.142055.12744@cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 8 May 91 14:20:55 GMT
References: <470@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de>
Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
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In <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
If in a makefile: "FCFLAGS = ... -W0,-inline,\#,-type ..." should work

>by make. I tried everything I know about quoting (on shell-level), nothing 
In a shell, try: "FCFLAGS = ... -W0,-inline,\\\#,-type ..."
(This ends up in the environment as ....\#....)

Hope to have helped,
	Ernst
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