On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Tom Browder <[email protected]> wrote: > I know there are words in the Make manual warning about insidious > white space at the ends of strings, but is there any reason that Make > couldn't do trimming during parsing?
Well, the POSIX standard requires the current behavior. It's also part of the documented way of getting a variable that contains just whitespace, so there are presumably makefiles out there that make use of current behavior. Changing the behavior would break those makefiles and create a general version incompatibility problem. Philip Guenther _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
