On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Tom Browder <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you give me an example of using a token of spaces in a Makefile?
If i could remember the one time it was useful, i'd have written it in my original post ;). i *think* it had to so something with joining a list of parameters, but i won't swear to that. i did however find an old snippet where i explicitly came across this problem: toc2.platform.file_extensions.exe =# no whitespace, please i remember that causing me grief when i had a space after the '=', and added the comment marker to ensure that it stays empty. > I'm really having a hard time seeing why it would be proscribed in > POSIX, too. Probably for historical reasons, since the standard was written long after make was commonplace. There's a *lot* of makefile code in the world, and changing any given standards-defined behaviour might indeed break 1 or even 2 projects. > I'm used to quoting a token if I want embedded spaces > (and the use of spaces for structure in Python is one of the reasons I > can't get excited about Python, nor do I like spaces in filenames). (i avoid python for the same reason.) While looking through my docs for a practical use i still haven't found one, but i did find mention of the $(strip) function, which normalizes whitespace - strips leading/trailing and compresses multiple spaces into a single space. That might be helpful in your case. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
