Re: [PATCH] Simplify MSGFMT setting in Makefile

[Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>]

Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Junio C Hamano writes:
> 
>>  * I am planning to close 'master' for -rc1 by the end of this week, so
>>    please plan to tell me to pull if you have accumulated changes,
>>    thanks.
> 
> I have a few commits for you to pull, but I am about to push a patch
> for gitk like the one you sent for git-gui, so I'll send you a pull
> request when I've done that.  However, I found that in this line:
> 
>>  else
>>  	MSGFMT ?= msgfmt
>> -	ifeq ($(shell $(MSGFMT) >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo $$?),127)
>> +	ifneq ($(shell $(MSGFMT) --tcl -l C -d . /dev/null 2>/dev/null; echo $?),0)
> 
> I had to put "echo $$?" for it to work rather than "echo $?".
> 

$$ is the way to pass a literal $ to the shell in Makefiles, so that
seems in order.

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