Re: Variable is assigned wrong value

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Sam Ravnborg <address@hidden> writes:

  sr> When a variable is followed by a comment the variable is assigned
  sr> a value containing a space.

Yes.  This is documented in the manual and is exactly how all versions
of make behave.

In fact, you don't even need a comment: any trailing whitespace is
assigned to the variable even if there is nothing after it.

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