g++ - Escaping in makefile

Question

I'm trying to do this in a makefile and it fails horribly:

M_ARCH := $(shell g++ -dumpmachine | awk '{split($1,a,"-");print a[1]}')

do you know why? I guess it has to do with escaping, but what and where?

Answer 1

It's the dollar sign, in makefiles you'll have to type $$ to get a single dollar sign:

M_ARCH := $(shell g++ -dumpmachine | awk '{split($$1,a,"-");print a[1]}')