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shell comman in make (Xplatform)

Shea Martin

2004-01-27, 3:34 am

I need a variable in my Makefile, set to the OS name (i.e., the output
of uname) in upper case.

For gmake
OS := ($shell uname | tr -s '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')
does the trick.

But for non gmake systems such as Solaris
OS :sh= uname | tr -s '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'
works.

But I would like to have a universal make file. Any ideas?

Thanks,

~S