On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 09:26:21AM +0200, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas wrote:
> Some people prefer no space before '=' and afaik no consensus has been
> reached. The formatting in this port is consistent, so please avoid
> needless churn unless you really can't stand the current Makefile. ;)
There are some technical reasons to put a space before the =, because
it DOES let things be unambiguous for make.
Specifically, we have "augmented operators" := += ?= != and combinations
thereof.
Especially for variables built on the fly, e.g., PKGNAME${S}, having the
space prevents errors.
(say, if S=-c++, PKGNAME${S}=somevalue will NOT do what you expect)
So this is something that's 100% needed for tricky infrastructure and ports
and I really really prefer things to be consistent throughout the tree,
especially since I have to put the space in everything I do.
