David Bruce <davidstuartbr...@gmail.com> writes:
> Snippet from install-nsi-local target in Makefile.am:
> -----------------------------------------
> ## Convert text files from Unix format DOS/Windows format and rename
> ## them with ".txt" extension:
> (cd $(top_builddir)/$(NSI_INSTALL_DIR)/doc; \
> FILES=`find . -type f`; \
> for file in $(FILES); do \
> echo "Processing "$(file); \
> todos -p $(file); \
> mv $(file) $(file)".txt"; \
> done)
> But it doesn't work - I think because the 'FILES' and 'file' variables
> aren't available when the subshells are spawned to run the commands.
You're mixing together a couple types of variables. $FILES and $file are
shell variables, not Makefile variables, so you need to escape the $ so
that make doesn't expand them and lets the shell expand them.
(cd $(top_builddir)/$(NSI_INSTALL_DIR)/doc; \
FILES=`find . -type f`; \
for file in $$FILES; do \
echo "Processing "$$file; \
todos -p $$file; \
mv $$file $$file".txt"; \
done)
--
Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
