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At 2009-05-17T09:14:12+01:00, Chris Rees wrote:

> As in
>
> WITHOUT_JAVA=yes
>
> or
>
> WITHOUT_JAVA=     yes
>
> ?
>
> You can't just stick random whitespace in the middle of things like that....

AFAIK, "VAR=val" is equivalent to "VAR = value", "VAR=   value", etc.
According to the section on variable assignments in make(1), "Any
whitespace before the assigned value is removed..."

Raghavendra.

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