Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <99B82AA9708ED0119B55006097125A00363F06@ifk63.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> From: Heribert Dahms To: "'Lassi A. Tuura'" , Brian Pollard Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: RE: problem with make Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 22:09:02 +0200 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) Content-Type: text/plain Hi, 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? Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de) > -----Original Message----- > From: Lassi A. Tuura [SMTP:lassi.tuura@cern.ch] > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 13:34 > To: Brian Pollard > Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com > Subject: Re: problem with make > > > 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 > -- > A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its > opponents and making them see the light, but rather because > its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up > that is familiar with it. --Planck, 1949 > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com