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Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 08:00:58 +0200
From: "Lassi A. Tuura" <lassi.tuura@cern.ch>
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To: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de>
CC: Brian Pollard <b_pollard@trillium.com>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: problem with make
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> 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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