Whitespace in Makefiles has been a mess from the start. The story is that
Feldman realized that making distinctions between types of white space was a
bad idea. But he had a dozen users and didn't want to break their Makefiles.
And the Bourne shell is not much better on that score. What you
Hello Fellow developers.
I have a confusing Problem with our buildsystem.
Since today it keeps behaving Inconsistently when I have a Whitespace in
a Value of a variable.
A Makefile like so:
COMPONENT_NAME=salt
COMPONENT_VERSION=2018.3.2
COMPONENT_SUMMARY='Portable, distributed, remote execution