Re: Mass bugfiling potential: 'rules' with space

[Nathan Hawkins <utsl@quic.net>]

Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:13:05 +0100
> Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> > So the Linux interpreter strips off any trailing space characters before
> > passing it to the application, whereas NetBSD doesn't. I'm not convinced
> > that this is a bug in NetBSD (SUS only mentions #! notation in a single
> > paragraph, and gives no exact details of it), but possibly make should
> > be a bit more resiliant here.
>
> How would you make "make" to be a bit more resilient ?
> I might have a file " " which I want to use with make, with
>
> make -f" "

Actually, if I understand correctly, it's getting an empty string, not a 
space. No filename can be zero length, so make can safely ignore it.

	---Nathan