How to assign the output of a command to a Makefile variable

Question

I need to execute some make rules conditionally, only if the Python installed is greater than a certain version (say 2.5).

I thought I could do something like execut

Answer 1

Wrapping the assignment in an eval is working for me.

# dependency on .PHONY prevents Make from 
# thinking there's `nothing to be done`
set_opts: .PHONY
  $(eval DOCKER_OPTS = -v $(shell mktemp -d -p /scratch):/output)