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From: "Noel L Yap" <yap_noel@jpmorgan.com>
To: lassi.tuura@cern.ch
cc: B_Pollard@Trillium.Com, Cygwin@Sourceware.Cygnus.Com
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 18:22:57 -0400
Subject: Re: problem with make
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lassi.tuura@cern.ch on 2000.08.16 07:34:25
>>         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).

Well, ..., actually, you can:
BLANK:=
SPACE:=$(BLANK) $(BLANK)
STUFF:=.$(SPACE)$(SPACE)

Noel


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