Re: Limiting expansion of make variables

[John Calcote]

Actually, use \$$. Double the dollar sign to escape it for make. Prepend
the slash (or put it in single quotes) to keep the shell from expanding it.

On Apr 18, 2017 10:16 AM, "John Calcote" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Use \$.
>
> On Apr 18, 2017 10:14 AM, "Richard Cavell" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>    Hello all.  For debugging purposes, I am trying to put this into my
>>    makefile:
>>
>>    .PHONY: dumpvars
>>
>>    dumpvars: source.c source.h
>>    @echo "$(RM) is " $(RM)
>>    @echo "$? expands to : " $?
>>
>>    and so on.  But obviously, Make is expanding all instances of the
>>    variables' names.  How do I prevent this?
>>
>>    TIA,
>>    Richard
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