[sclug] Makefile and sed

James Fidell james at cloud9.co.uk
Sat Oct 25 09:05:55 UTC 2003


Quoting pieter claassen (pieter at countersnipe.com):
> I cannot figure this out any help appreciated:
> 
> sed 's/@PV@/$*/g' debian/postinst-python >>
> debian/python$*-reportlab.postinst.debhelper
> 
> This appears in a Makefile. Is the @PV@ a makefile or sed var?

Not much to work on there, but I think you'll find that @SV@ just
appears in debian/postinst-python as a replacement target for the
sed command.

$* will presumably be set by make to the root of whatever target
this command appears in.

James



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