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Re: whitespace


From: Kristof Provost
Subject: Re: whitespace
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:52:24 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

On 2010-12-12 14:07:31 (+0330), ali hagigat <address@hidden> wrote:
> 5.1.1 Splitting Recipe Lines
>  Whitespace is never added to the recipe.
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
> all:
>       @echo rrrr\
>         sssss
> 
> The result:
> rrrr sssss
> ------------------------------------------------
> In the third line several spaces added but only one space was printed.
> Does make remove all spaces before giving the recipe to the shell? Why
> there is still one space left?
> 
Have you tried running 'echo rrrr\
          ssss' on the command line, outside of make?

Kristof




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