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RE: problem with make
- To: "'Lassi A. Tuura'" <lassi dot tuura at cern dot ch>, Brian Pollard <b_pollard at trillium dot com>
- Subject: RE: problem with make
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-gmbh dot de>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:09:02 +0200
- Cc: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
Hi,
I never used trailing comments and $(strip) is also new to me,
but is it really true that the obvious quoted
var="value "
does NOT preserve trailing spaces?
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lassi A. Tuura [SMTP:lassi.tuura@cern.ch]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 13:34
> To: Brian Pollard
> Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: problem with make
>
> > hehe=. #some comment
> > hehe stores ". " instead of "./"
>
> This is documented make behaviour -- and in fact the only way to get
> trailing space to a variable value. As someone else already replied,
> if
> that's not what you want, just move the comment to another line or use
> $(strip).
>
> Hope this helps,
> //lat
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