Manual, ch. 6.2 The Two Flavors of Variables, section simply expanded.. controlled leading whitespace, page 63

bug-make@gnu.org Edition 0.75, last updated 17 January 2020, of The GNU Make Manual, for GNUmake version 4.3, PDF document downloaded newly from GNU Make web. Hello, Reg. example presented at page 63 bottom: when to ignore comment part inclusively comment starting '#', I see one whitespace whic

Re: Manual, ch. 6.2 The Two Flavors of Variables, section simply expanded.. controlled leading whitespace, page 63

On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 12:42 +, DUDZIAK Krzysztof wrote: > Why is a variable of null-string value used to protect leading space? Stripping of leading space in a variable assignment happens while the makefile is being parsed and BEFORE any part of the line is expanded. So, any non-space charact