problem with make

Lassi A. Tuura lassi.tuura@cern.ch
Wed Aug 16 23:01:00 GMT 2000


> 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?

Well, it does preserve the spaces -- but only because as far as make is
concerned, $(var) is `"value      "', quotes and all.  In other words,
there are no trailing spaces in your example :-)

Cheers and have a great week,
//lat
-- 
C makes it too easy to slice your fingers off, and programmers all
over the world are doing so with great regularity.  --Steven Bellovin

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