name : scan_makefile_in.awk BEGIN { mode=0 sources="" } mode == 0 && /^LTLIBRARY_SOURCES.*\\$/ { if (match($0, "[^=]*$")) { sources=substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH-1) } mode=1 next } mode == 0 && /^LTLIBRARY_SOURCES.*/ { if (match($0, "[^=]*$")) { sources=substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH) } } mode == 1 && /.*\\$/ { sources=sources substr($0, 0, length - 1) next } mode == 1 { sources=sources $0 mode=0 } END { print sources }