RE: how to filter-out a word sequence?

[David Boyce]

At 11:12 AM 1/5/2007, Dave Korn wrote:
>   And indeed, judicious use of $(strip ....) to normalise/canonicalise the
> whitespace in a variable can get round that anyway, which is helpful if you
> want to allow users to supply manual overrides in environment variables (or
> make variables set on the command-line invocation), since anything entered
> manually might well have a stray space or two in it.

Even more important in our case since these Makefiles need to support 
clearmake (in its GNU-compatible mode). Since clearmake compares 
build scripts in addition to file versions, any stray spaces can 
cause a spurious rebuild. This is where $(strip) is extremely handy.

-David Boyce