Re: multiple assignments on one line?

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> I'm using a $(shell ...)-ed command to generate some variable
> assignments. I want to have these assignments evaluated by a Makefile.

> Unfortunately $(shell ...) is stripping out the newlines and
> making the multiple assignments - one per line - into one single
> assignment with a very long right-hand side.

I have done something similar by replacing the spaces with an unused character and then substituting back the space.  I am retyping the my lines from memory, so I may not have the correct syntax but it should give you the idea.

In the Makefile

empty:=

space:=${empty} ${empty}

# empty has a newline after the = character and there is a single space between the two empty macros

$(foreach var $(shell branding_vars),$(eval $(subst @,${space},${var})))

In the shell script branding_vars (simplified version)

echo "OS:=AIX"

echo "address@hidden"

The foreach takes each argument which is a complete Makefile command with no spaces and replaces the @ character with a space and then executes the var argument.

Norman Abramovitz