How can I capture the current directory as an absolute pathname in a make variable?

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Published on 2010-06-16T01:52:08Z Indexed on 2010/06/17 5:23 UTC
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I'd like to get the current directory during a GNUmake file run put into a make variable.

What is the syntax to do this? Something like this?

DIR := $(PWD)

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