On Mon, 2025-03-10 at 12:38 -0800, Britton Kerin wrote:
> I would expect make to remove trailing comments and then strip
> surrounding white space from variable definitions as usual but it
> seems that the comments prevent further stripping:
Comments don't prevent stripping; values in assignments
I would expect make to remove trailing comments and then strip
surrounding white space from variable definitions as usual but it
seems that the comments prevent further stripping:
$ cat Makefile
# a classic var
FOO = foo
BAR = bar # and another but commented differently
echo_some_vars:
On Sat, 2025-03-08 at 11:34 -0900, Britton Kerin wrote:
> What confuses me is that since the explicitly requested foo exists
> and isn't out of date with respect to any non-order-only prereqs (in
> the example it doesn't have any) and therefore isn't getting rebuilt,
> I wouldn't expect there to be
