Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Jaromír Dolecek wrote:
> 
> : > Anyone against putting:
> : > 
> : > TARGET_ENDIANNESS!= \
> : > 	printf "\#include <machine/endian_machdep.h>\n_BYTE_ORDER\n" | \
> : > 	${CC} -I${DESTDIR}/usr/include -E - | tail -1
> : 
> : Ah, true :) I was wondering how one can make echo print newline portably
> : and forgot printf completely :)
> 
> There's an easier solution which is already used for the HAVE_GCC28
> definitions (and thus should be reused for uniformity).  Just add "; echo"
> to the end of the command to add an extra newline.  The make(1) program
> strips this as whitespace.

Ok, how about:

Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/basesrc/etc/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.170
diff -d -p -u -r1.170 Makefile
--- Makefile	2000/11/09 20:01:54	1.170
+++ Makefile	2000/11/26 00:47:21
@@ -121,8 +121,9 @@ PCS=	pcs750.bin
 # find out endianness of target and set proper flag for pwd_mkdb so that
 # it creates database in same endianness
 .if exists(${DESTDIR}/usr/include/machine/endian_machdep.h)
-TARGET_ENDIANNESS!= awk '/_BYTE_ORDER/{print $$3}' \
-       ${DESTDIR}/usr/include/machine/endian_machdep.h
+TARGET_ENDIANNESS!= \
+	( echo "\#include <machine/endian_machdep.h>" ; echo _BYTE_ORDER ) | \
+	${CC} -I${DESTDIR}/usr/include -E - | tail -1 | awk '{print $$1}'
 .else
 TARGET_ENDIANNESS=
 .endif

This doesn't rely on printf(1) being available (better for cross compiling).

Simon.
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