leading and trailing @ symbols in variable declarations

buadmin has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to debug a perl script and I came across a variable declarations like so ...

perl_path="@perl_path@"
perl_shared_lib_dir_base="@perl_shared_lib_dir_base@"
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I don't understand the why these declarations have trailing @ symbols. Can someone kindly please explain these declarations? Thank you.

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Re: leading and trailing @ symbols in variable declarations by Argel (Prior) on Sep 17, 2012 at 23:25 UTC
As ikegami says, that's not Perl. It appears to be an excerpt from a Makefile. Elda Taluta; Sarks Sark; Ark Arks My deviantART gallery	[reply]
Re: leading and trailing @ symbols in variable declarations by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 17, 2012 at 23:00 UTC
That's not Perl code.	[reply]
Re: leading and trailing @ symbols in variable declarations by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Sep 18, 2012 at 13:13 UTC
Perhaps that is Yet Another Template System. I have seen (and used) that type of a construct when doing search and replace type building of a script at the shell level. `sed -e 's,@perl_path@,/my/path/to/perl,g; ...'` --MidLifeXis	[reply] [d/l]