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Re: Using make with jade
- From: Ian Castle <ian dot castle at coldcomfortfarm dot net>
- To: Trevor Jenkins <trevor dot jenkins at suneidesis dot com>
- Cc: DOCBOOK-APPS Discussion List <docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:19:31 +0100
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Using make with jade
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0204111301300.15982-100000@suneidesis.demon.co.uk>
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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