Make:defining macros with filenames that have '$' in them

[Geoff Clare]

DeadHead at cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes:
|I have to include a file with '$' in its name (i.e. abc.$cf) in
|a macro definition in Make.

gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
|Did you try $$ ?

dce at Sony.COM (David Elliott) writes:
| this isn't a simple question.  After all,
|once Make tries to do anything with the filename, it uses the shell
|('$' is in the list of characters that force the use of sh), which
|will eat the $.

Actually this IS a very simple question.  Just make sure the $ is quoted
when it is passed to the shell: abc.'$$'cf or 'abc.$$cf' does the trick.
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