Re: gnu make bug

[Paul D. Smith]

%% address@hidden (Laurie Moye) writes:

  lm> ifneq (  , $(findstring -g, $(CFLAGS)) )

Why does everyone think whitespace doesn't count?

  lm> Which seems to confirm that the bracketted form of the ifneq fails to
  lm> recognise the sort of empty string returned by findstring when it
  lm> fails.

You're not comparing against the empty string, you're comparing with a
string containing "  " (two spaces).

Rewrite:

  ifneq (,$(findstring -g,$(CFLAGS)))

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