Re: whitespace

[Duke Normandin]

On Sun, 12 Dec 2010, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 02:07:31PM +0330, ali hagigat wrote:
> > 5.1.1 Splitting Recipe Lines
> >  Whitespace is never added to the recipe.
> > ------------------------------------------------
> >
> > all:
> >     @echo rrrr\
> >         sssss
> >
> > The result:
> > rrrr sssss
> > ------------------------------------------------
> > In the third line several spaces added but only one space was printed.
> > Does make remove all spaces before giving the recipe to the shell? Why
> > there is still one space left?
>
> Did you actually try the same in the shell you are using?
> The chapter you refer to says:
> "Both the backslash and the newline characters are preserved and passed to 
> the shell. How the backslash-newline is interpreted depends on your shell."
>
> Please somehow convice me (us) that you actually tried to figuer this out 
> yourself before you requested help.
>
> [I on purpose have not addressed your question - you have enough info to 
> deduce this yourself].

I think this bozo is a troll, but at the very least an impertinent,
lazy moron, who presumes to be entitled to your time. Please consider
_not_ feeding the troll.

-- 
Duke