Re: Makefile: Space Character in Assignments

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 23:59 -0500, Hamed Janzadeh wrote:
> Last night I found a very cruel bug in GNU make that led to a costly
> experience for me. Hence, I decided to report it and to help others
> not to repeat my experiment.
> 
> In a Makefile, and in assignment operations, the space character after
> the value is included to the value by `make'. Therefore, if I have an
> assignment like this:

This is not a bug; it's documented behavior which is required by the
POSIX standard for make.  In fact there was just a thread about this on
the help mailing list over the weekend.

PS.  ObCaution: In general, it's not a good idea to run make as root.
Especially when you're not sure the makefile is correct.

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