i don't know what do you want to do, but you can count the number of chars
using a LEN() function, treat the path as an array, run along the array and
stop 1 char before end, assigning the result to a new variable.
Just an idea ;)
Regards,
Jonathan GF
On Jan 20, 2008 3:43 AM, Philip Prindeville <
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> Silly make question for you all...
>
> I've got a variable, $(FOO), and I need to take the dirname part of it,
> and create a symlink, but if:
>
> FOO := /a/b/c/d.e
>
> then $(dir $(FOO)) will be /a/b/c/ and of course, the "ln -s" will crap
> out because of the trailing slash.
>
> Any idea how to peel away the trailing slash? I could "$(shell echo
> $(FOO) | sed ...)" but that's too ugly.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Philip
>
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