On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:48 AM, Brandon Invergo <bran...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi Carl, > > > "Bash" in the news. I decided to upgrade it to lastest patchlevel , 25. > > > > Maybe you could give me a few clues. > > Only had to change 2 files, Makefile and sha246sum > > My usual update workflow is the following: > > 1. edit Makefile > > ... > ok, I think I see it. I was unfamiliar with procedure with bzr, easy enough I hope to make myself useful in the future with other updates. > > > The glitch I mentioned: > ... > > had a trailing space! Surprized me; a bug in make? > > Weird, I hadn't encountered that before but I can confirm that it > happens for me too. It strikes me not as a bug but as a side effect of > not needing to enclose variable values in quotes; the value includes > everything up to the newline. We could use Make's 'strip' function to > remove the whitespace when such compound strings are built (in this > case, "packageDESTDIR", line 623 in gar.lib.mk). It doesn't look like > there will be many places that need such a change (mainly wherever > GARNAME and GARVERSION are used in gar.mk and gar.lib.mk). I'll work on > that. > > -brandon > > > If not a bug, at least a misfeature. Something make hackers should know, now I do.
