Subject: Re: problem with make
From: "Lassi A. Tuura" <[email-masked]>
To: Heribert Dahms <[email-masked]>
Cc: Brian Pollard <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 08:00:58 +0200

> 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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