Date:	Wed, 28 Aug 1996 19:54:15 -0400
From:	dj (DJ Delorie)
Message-Id:	<199608282354.TAA13784@delorie.com>
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC:	robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.960828172823.14668A-100000@is> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 28 Aug 1996 17:30:59 +0200 (IST))
Subject:	Re: Port of Make 3.74 to DJGPP

> In that case, I'll add this to my todo list, since it seems like a 
> simple job to support this feature (just call the same function that is 
> called when $(shell) is used).

Be careful.  gmake does it by letting the *shell* (/bin/sh) interpret
the back-ticks.  For example, this syntax is equally legal and uses
the same methods:

	FOO = -x -F *.h -D`glok | cut -c4-6` $HOME

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