On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 13:52 +0200, Sébastien Hinderer wrote:
> Of course this does not work because the first closing parenthesis is
> interpreted as ending the call to the shell function.
>
> Is there a way to actually achieve this, please?
You have at least three choices:
First, use the matched parenthesis form of case; this is valid POSIX
shell syntax (and I prefer it even in normal shell scripts as it makes
editor matching etc. simpler):
case "$target" in
(i386-*-) echo foo ;;
(*) ;;
esac
Make will count the open/close parens properly.
Or second, you could use the curly-brace form of variable/function
invocation instead, like:
${shell ... }
so make will ignore mismatched parentheses.
Or third, you can assign a variable to the close-paren and use that
instead:
CP := )
$(shell ... *$(CP) ;; ...)
Make always parses to the end of the variable or function first, before
it tries to expand what's inside.
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