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Re: Using make with jade


Works OK with the versions of make that I use (gmake in the main).

You might find the Makefile that comes with openjade 1.3.1
docsrc/Makefile interesting as that is used to build documentation. It
certainly makes use of a "#" in the command line.


On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 14:10, Trevor Jenkins wrote:
> I'm trying to write a Makefile for my Docbook documentation project.
> Thought this would be simple until I came across the option I want to pass
> to the customised driver stylesheet. In the shell this would appear in the
> 
>     -d projdir/project-driver.dsl#print
> 
> option to (open)jade.
> 
> My problem is that the man and info files for make are almost silent as to
> the effect of this number sign in a command file (or variable assignment
> for that fact). The usual interpretation of # in make is to denote the
> start of commentary material but in this instance it isn't comment it's
> vital to the correct operation of jade.
> 
> The info for make says this:
> 
>    * `#' in a line of a makefile starts a "comment".  It and the rest of
>      the line are ignored, ... Comments may appear ... within commands
>      (where the shell decides what is a comment).  ...
> 
> I need to be certain that this jade-mandated # isn't going to be eaten by
> make but will be passed intact to the shell.
> 
> Anyone else encountered this problem and solved it?
> 
> Regards, Trevor
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