Is there any other way to format my %echo output in OMAKE (Instead of using cygwin printf.exe but using any localized syntax of OMAKE it self)

Question

The below I have pasted two approaches, but the second approach does not gives good structured output like the approach 1 does.

Please suggest me how to get the same good font with OMAKE internal syntaxes if any:

• approach 1:

  @:$(CC_WORKING_VIEW)/tools/Cygwin/bin/print '%-26s -%s\n' "$(target)" "$($(target)_DESCRIPTION)"
  

Or:

• approach 2:

  # %echo "$(target)"                  "$($(target)_DESCRIPTION)"
  

Answer 1

echo alone would not support padding, as print or printf does.

As long as Cygwin/bin is in your $PATH (or %PATH% on Windows), you should be able to use directly printf:

printf '%-26s -%s\n' "$(target)" "$($(target)_DESCRIPTION)"

You can echo your %PATH% in your omake makefile, as shown in this technote.

PATH=$(CWD)\buildtools;$(PATH)
# %setenv PATH=$(PATH)

all:
 echo %PATH%