Question

This is a silly question, but…. with GNU Make:

VAR = MixedCaseText LOWER_VAR = $(VAR,lc)  default:         @echo $(VAR)         @echo $(LOWER_VAR) 

In the above example, what’s the correct syntax for converting VAR’s contents to lower case? The syntax shown (and everything else I’ve run across) result in LOWER_VAR being an empty string.

Answer 1

you can always spawn off tr

LOWER_VAR = `echo $(VAR) | tr A-Z a-z` 

or

LOWER_VAR  = $(shell echo $(VAR) | tr A-Z a-z) 

The ‘lc’ functions you trying to call is from GNU Make Standard Library

Assuming that is installed , the proper syntax would be

LOWER_VAR  = $(call lc,$(VAR))