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| From: | Harvey Chapman |
| Subject: | Re: White Space Problems--Again |
| Date: | Wed, 13 May 2009 17:34:46 -0400 |
| User-agent: | Postbox 1.0b11 (Macintosh/2009041623) |
Pontus wrote:
Then I added a comment to the line: COMPS := gnu # gfortran Make reports the value of $(COMPS) as 'gnu ', not the same. Is there any rationale for Make not trimming white space in that situation? Or ever?
See the middle of section 6.2 of the make manual. You can search for "one space" which turns up three hits to find it faster. Summary: Using a comment in that manner is the accepted (only?) way of making a variable that contains only white space.
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