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From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
To: "Moti Daniel" <motid AT p-cube DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <2153954E5F82D411954300D0B782FD0401830157 AT ILEXCH1>
Subject: Re: Question/bug? : Make and tab problem since version 1.3.16...
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:37:53 -0000
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Moti Daniel <motid AT p-cube DOT com> wrote:

> After upgrading cygwin dll to 1.3.16 from 1.3.12 I had the following
> problem:
> I'm using cygwin to build my project, in my makefile I'm creating
> another makefile like this:
> VAR1=a.o : a.c\n\tcc $$@
> .
> .
> .
> sometarget :
> $(shell echo -e '$(VAR1)' >> somefile
> 
> before the upgrade this produced somefile with this lines in it:
> a.o : a.c
> <TAB> cc $@

I find that hard to believe.

With that $(shell... in there, make tries to run a program 'a.o'.

Max.



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