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Date:	Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:34:25 +0200
From:	"Lassi A. Tuura" <lassi DOT tuura AT cern DOT ch>
Organization:	Northeastern University, Boston, USA
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To:	Brian Pollard <b_pollard AT trillium DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: problem with make
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>         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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