I still think it is a shell problem not make rtl11:~ $ make FOO=" " origin of FOO is: command line FOO is empty rtl11:~ $ make FOO="\ " origin of FOO is: command line FOO is not empty
and the value of FOO is one blank in the second case. So I guess it IS the shells way of expanding things thats causing the problem. hofrat _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
