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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 10:03:57 +0300 (IDT)
From: "Avraham H. Fraenkel" <avraham DOT fraenkel AT comMATCH DOT com>
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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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You can do :

1) put the remark in the line before.
   in such case no trilling balnks are added to the macro.
2) if you are using GNU make , there is  a function called strip, so you
   can do:
 	$(strip $(hehe))/mine.h


     Avraham

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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Brian Pollard wrote:

> when using a make file, assignment statements such as:
> 
> 	hehe=.           #some comment
> 
> 	$(hehe)/mine.h
> hehe stores ".            " instead of "./"
> 
> this causes problems when accessing something such as:
> 
> 
> because it is interpreted as ".           /mine.h"
> 
> 
> I would guess that the source code needs to be modified, any suggestions???
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Brian
> 
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