Re: [gnu.org #422525] Passing conditional expression to shell in a make file?

[Harvey Chapman]

rajdeep lodh wrote:
> define bmp_cefs
>     @echo 
> #------------------------------------------------------------------
>     @echo Copying BMP CEFS image .....
>     @echo Done Copying BMP CEFS image
>     @echo 
> #------------------------------------------------------------------
> endef
define bmp_cefs
    echo 
"#------------------------------------------------------------------" ; \
    echo "Copying BMP CEFS image ....." ; \
    echo "Done Copying BMP CEFS image" ; \
    echo 
"#------------------------------------------------------------------"
endef

There were a few things. bmp_cefs is included as part of a single shell 
command and not as separate make commands so it needs to be formatted as 
such. Notice the quotation marks used for the echo's, especially around 
the # which was ending the line for make. Also, since it's all really 
one long shell command, each line needed a "; \" except for the last, of 
course. Lastly, the '@'s needed to go. See below.

Cheers,

Harvey