in reply to Re: Problem with backtick?
in thread Problem with backtick?

You might want to check that you have literal 'tabs' in your Makefile on the line after your 'all:' target (spaces won't do). And, did you try to run perl try.pl without the Makefile? What did it do for you?
It is indeed tab in the makefile. I ran perl try.pl without Makefile and it worked fine. It doesn't work only with cygwin make.