Im have a little program in my makefile.am:
test3.abc:
echo '#!/bin/bash' > test3.abc
echo "echo test3.abc $$# ' [' $$@ ']'>> test3.log" >> test3.abc
echo "echo I am a test script >> test3.log" >> test3.abc
Which works fine except the $$#. What I'm trying to do is to have:
test3.abc
echo test3.abc $# ' [' $@ ']
But I don't know how to do the escapes properly. And I do know that there's
a whole bunch of stuff which causes several passes through the code fragment
(Makefile.am -> Makefile.in -> Makefile (./configure before distribution)
then Makfile.in -> Makefile (./configure after distribution) then make .
And I don't know how to generate the correct escape so that the code meant
is the code delivered. The fall-back position is to just create the file and
used EXTRA_DIST or like facility to copy it.
It's frustrating. Any ideas.
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