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RE: problem with make
- To: "'Lassi A. Tuura'" <lassi dot tuura at cern dot ch>, "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: problem with make
- From: Brian Pollard <b_pollard at trillium dot com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 09:39:03 -0700
It preserves the trailing spaces when the quotes are not used and I believe
it shouldn't. I wrote the email with quotes to emphasize the trailing
zeros.
thanx
Brian
so
hehe=. #comment
makes hehe stored as ". "
when i think it should only store "." as make does in solarias
-----Original Message-----
From: Lassi A. Tuura [mailto:lassi.tuura@cern.ch]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 11:01 PM
To: Heribert Dahms
Cc: Brian Pollard; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: problem with make
> 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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