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From: andre@targon.UUCP (Andre van Dalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Make and '#'
Message-ID: <1744@targon.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 91 07:53:03 GMT
References: <470@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de>
Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Informationsystems BV.,SWZ, Vianen, the Netherlands.
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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)

For me works
FCFLAGS=... -W0,-inline,$(H),-type

together with the command line

make H=\# all

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