Re: Variable assignment that depends on a generated target

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 06:27 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> How about
> 
>  VERSION := $(shell make /path/to/some/file && grep VERSION 
> /path/to/some/file)

This will work, but I prefer the include version I mentioned earlier.
Also note you should always use $(MAKE), never "make", when invoking a
submake (even within a shell function).

Cheers!

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