Re: Embedding a carriage return in $(error)?

[Rick Flower]

Mike Shal wrote:

> One way would be to use define/endef to create a variable, since that
> preserves newlines:
>
> define err
> No object directory found -- possible configuration problem?
> I looked for : $(OBJDIRS)
> endef
>
> ifeq (,$(OBJDIR))
>   $(error $(err))
> endif
>
> I don't know if there's an easy way to do "inline" newlines, but in
> general anytime you want newlines in things, define/endef is your guy.

Cool.. I'll give it a try. Thanks!