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Re: problem with make
- To: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-gmbh dot de>
- Subject: Re: problem with make
- From: "Lassi A. Tuura" <lassi dot tuura at cern dot ch>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 08:00:58 +0200
- CC: Brian Pollard <b_pollard at trillium dot com>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, USA
- References: <99B82AA9708ED0119B55006097125A00363F06@ifk63.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>
> 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
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