Re: ifeq evaluation in makefile

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Sébastien Douheret <address@hidden> writes:

  sd> SEARCH_DATE := `cat ${H_FILE_VERSION} | grep ${PRJ_DATE}`

Make doesn't do ``.  This just sets SEARCH_DATE to the actual string
"`cat ${H_FILE_VERSION} | grep ${PRJ_DATE}`", which obviously is never
empty.

If you want to actually run a shell command you need to use the GNU make
$(shell ...) function, not backticks.

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