RE: Excessive $(strip)

[Martin Dorey]

> this also removes the newlines.
...
> IMHO make 4.x has a too strict definition of white-space.

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap07.html sayeth:

"In the POSIX locale, at a minimum, the <space>, <form-feed>, <newline>, 
<carriage-return>, <tab>, and <vertical-tab> shall be included."

Case closed?

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Gisle Vanem
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2014 05:11
To: address@hidden
Subject: Excessive $(strip)

I'm a happy user of the $(file) function and multiline macros/variables
likes this:
..
define FOO_PACKAGE
  exec_prefix=$(FOO_ROOT)
  libdir=$${exec_prefix}/lib
  includedir=$${exec_prefix}/inc
  Version: $(FOO_VERSION)
  Libs: $${libdir}/$(FOO_LIB)
endef

write_pkg:
  $(file > ./foo.pc, $(strip $(FOO_PACKAGE)))

Since I suspect some older pkgconfig programs doesn't like the leading
spaces in foo.pc, I'm using $(strip). But this also removes the newlines. 

My make-manual documents that "white space" gets stripped off. IMHO 
make 4.x has a too strict definition of white-space. Or have I misunderstood 
how $(strip) is supposed to work?

But I could always have 'define FOO_PACKAGE'
without the leading spaces and do:

write_pkg:
 $(file > ./foo.pc,$(FOO_PACKAGE))

But I prefer the nice indent.

--gv

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