Re: Excessive $(strip)

[Gisle Vanem]

"Martin Dorey" <address@hidden> wrote:

> > 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."

Then the make manual is a bit sloppy in the use of "whitespace".
E.g. from the man-page (3.3 Including Other Makefiles):
"Whitespace is required between include and the file names, and between file 
names"

(plus section 5.9 etc. etc.)

So a:
 include 
 foo.mak

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should work if that definition was true everywhere, but it doesn't. 

--gv