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From: meyering@CS.UTEXAS.EDU (Jim Meyering)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Inconsistency in make-3.54, $(shell command) != `command`
Message-ID: <8908292133.AA15130@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 89 21:33:16 GMT
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Distribution: gnu
Organization: University of Texas at Austin CS Department
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% cat Makefile
# Inconsistency in make-3.54, $(shell command) != `command`
# when the last character in the output of command is a NEWLINE.
#
foospace := $(shell echo foo)
foo := $(shell echo -n foo)

all:
	@echo $(foospace).suffix
	@echo $(foo).suffix
% make
foo .suffix
foo.suffix
% 

Jim Meyering      meyering@cs.utexas.edu