At Sunday 08 August 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 05:35:57PM CEST: > > I'm just saying that when we'll write the `extract_makefile_deps' > > function, it shouldn't bother with preserving tabs and > > backslashes; > > Well, it should deal with them correctly, yes. > > > on the other hand, it should actively normalize them to space in > > order to simplify grepping and matching of the extracted info. > > I think we violently agree. > > > So that, with your example below, something like: > > foo=`extract_makefile_deps tgt2 Makefile`; echo x"$foo"x > > > > should print: > > x dep1 dep2 dep3 dep4 x > > More or less, yes. I'd avoid the command substitution fork by > letting extract_makefile_deps set some variable instead of > printing. So the we'd have move the comamnd substitution inside the function? ;-) > > Have I managed to make my point now? If yes, what do you think > > of my proposal? > > Good. OK, it's mostly settled then. I'm saving a ref to this message, for when we'll really implement extract_makefile_deps.
Thanks, Stefano
