Re: [oi-dev] Whitespace in Makefiles in oi-userland keep causing Problems

2018-09-27 Thread Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev
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

[oi-dev] Whitespace in Makefiles in oi-userland keep causing Problems

2018-09-27 Thread Till Wegmüller
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