Re: Wildcard and Java class files

[Ken Smith]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:38:51AM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was playing around with Ken Smith's function for recursively listing files
> found at:
> 
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-make/2005-08/msg00027.html
> 
> find = \
> $(strip \
>   $(eval these-files := $(wildcard $(addsuffix /*,$(strip $(1))))) \
>   $(these-files) \
>   $(if $(strip $(these-files)),$(call find,$(these-files))) \
>  )
> 
> when I noticed that certain filenames were being shortened.  The culprit seems
> to be filenames containing a '$' (such as Java class files with inner 
> classes).
> It would appear that gmake is trying to expand the filename after the call to
> wildcard.
> 
> Is there an easy way to get around this?

I think this modification does the trick to solve this particular
problem.

find = \
$(strip \
  $(eval these-files := $(subst $$,$$$$,$(wildcard $(addsuffix /*,$(strip 
$(1)))))) \
  $(these-files) \
  $(if $(strip $(these-files)),$(call find,$(these-files))) \
 )

  Ken