Re: Probably a v.small doubt

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Karthikesh Raju <address@hidden> writes:

  >> Sure; use the $(shell ...) function.
  >> 
  >> TEXSYSTEM := $(shell if <need processing>; then echo latex; else echo 
pdftex; fi)
  >> 
  >> See the GNU make documentation for more info on := and $(shell ...).

  kr> Works but still it complains. like this:

  kr> define something
  kr> TEXSYSTEM := $(shell if <need processing>; then echo latex; else echo 
pdftex; fi)
  kr> echo ${TEXSYSTEM}
  kr> endef

No.  I didn't say anything about putting it inside a define/enddef.
This is _really_ not what you want to do; this creates a variable
"something" with a value of "TEXSYSTEM := ... "

What you want to do is create a variable TEXSYSTEM with the value which
is either latex or pdftex.


Write it just like I did above.  Obviously you have to replace the test
with something that tells you whether or not you want to use latex or
pdftex; I just put "<need processing>" as a placeholder there for some
shell code you should write.

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