Answering myself with a very easy example:
*DIRECTORY="/path/to/Philip/solution/"*
*echo ${DIRECTORY%/} * # The trailing slash was
removed at this point, check it :)
Internally is exactly what i said, but externally is very nice function to
use in makes and so forth...... ;)
Regards,
Jonathan GF
On Jan 20, 2008 12:09 PM, Jonathan GF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > wrote:
>
> > 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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