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Re: problem with make
- To: Brian Pollard <b_pollard at trillium dot com>
- Subject: Re: problem with make
- From: "Lassi A. Tuura" <lassi dot tuura at cern dot ch>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:34:25 +0200
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, USA
- References: <0E7AA454E229D411A1CB0090274661FF550314@gaea.trillium.com>
> 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
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