Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!caen!ox.com!math.fu-berlin.de!mailgzrz!w414zrz!jaenicke From: jaenicke@w414zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Lutz Jaenicke) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Make and '#' Message-ID: <476@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de> Date: 8 May 91 18:26:13 GMT References: <470@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de> <1991May08.142055.12744@cs.ruu.nl> Sender: news@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de Organization: TUBerlin Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: w414zrz.ee.tu-berlin.de In article <1991May08.142055.12744@cs.ruu.nl> hnridder@cs.ruu.nl (Ernst de Ridder) 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 ... >> >If in a makefile: "FCFLAGS = ... -W0,-inline,\#,-type ..." should work Sorry, it doesn't (at least not for Apollo Domain/OS 10.3). The thing I get is a macro named "FCFLAGS (you're right, the " is included into the macro's name), but the # is truncated again. Lutz Jaenicke -- Lutz Jaenicke jaenicke@w414zrz.ee.tu-berlin.de Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen jaenicke@emapollo.ee.tu-berlin.de Technische Universitaet Berlin Tel. (004930)314-24552 Einsteinufer 11, D-1000 Berlin 10 Fax. (004930)314-21133