I need to do this with "make", not with bash.
-Philip
Jonathan GF wrote:
> 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]
> <mailto:[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]
> <mailto:[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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