Re: Multiline variables?

[Zaar Hai]

Hi Dan,

To add on your post, to work with env var containing multiline values I had
to resort to bash. For quick test you can try:

$ cat Makefile
all:
    bash -c 'echo ${PUB}'

or just set 'SHELL = /bin/bash' somewhere early in your Makefile

Hope this helps,
Zaar

On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 04:22, Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> wrote:

> Ha!  The difference is the command base64 defaults to no wrapping on Mac
> OS,
> but wrapping on Linux.
>
> Mystery solved!  I was looking under the wrong rock :-)
> - Dan
>
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 1:40 AM Greg Chicares <gchicares@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
> > On 2020-09-19 21:47, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > >
> > > export PUB="$(base64 < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)"
> > > make
> > >
> > > where Makefile is
> > >
> > > all:
> > >         echo "${PUB}"
> > >
> > > and it worked fine on Mac, despite PUB being a multiline string.
> > >
> > > On Ubuntu (even with the same version of gnu make),
> > > it breaks terribly, complaining about a missing quote
> > > on the end of the first line of the string.  Evidently this is not
> > portable.
> > [...]
> > > I couldn't tell why they worked on the mac.  Any guesses?
> >
> > Just a guess--If $PUB is exported before running make, in an
> > interactive shell, then is that shell zsh by default for mac,
> > but bash for ubuntu?
> >
> >
> >
>


-- 
Zaar