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    Hi...

   I apologize if this is not the right newsgroup to post this to... If it
isn't, could someone please let me know where I should?  

  Could someone tell me how I can execute a (unix) program or sh script and 
have the stdout of that program go into a variable (macro?) in GNU make?

   I have a man page for a make (not gnu) which says you can do this
like:

  MACRO:sh =command

  But gnu make thinks sh is a dependency.  Is there any way to do this?

For example, if you wanted to get the current working directory and save
it in the variable 'CURR_DIR', this other make could do it like:

   CURR_DIR:sh =pwd

   How can I do this with my GNU 3.62 make?  (Or is this even possible?)


   Thanks *very* much in advance!


                                              -Jon-

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