Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 08:29:01 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Port of Make 3.74 to DJGPP
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On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, DJ Delorie wrote:

> Be careful.  gmake does it by letting the *shell* (/bin/sh) interpret
> the back-ticks.  For example, this syntax is equally legal and uses
> the same methods:
> 
> 	FOO = -x -F *.h -D`glok | cut -c4-6` $HOME

Thanks for the warning.  I didn't look in the Make code yet, but this 
suggests that the actual evaluation of `...` in FOO is deferred until the 
command that uses it is run, right?  In that case, using a unixy shell 
will have to be the solution to such fragments.