Re: [A-a-p-user] += without extra space

[Bram M. <Br...@mo...>]

Malte Neumann wrote:

> I would like to define my Target incrementally, i.e. adding different 
> suffixes to a base name for different variants. Like in the small example, 
> a modification of the example in Chapter 5 of the tutorial:
> 
> Source = main.c version.c gui.c
> 
> Target = myprog
> 
> :variant Build
>      release
>          OPTIMIZE = 4
>          Target  += _rel
>      debug
>          DEBUG = yes
>          Target  += _debg
> 
> :program $Target : $Source
> 
> 
> This does obviously not work. The tutorial says:
> "In line 15, 17 and 19 the append assignment "+=" is used. This appends the 
> argument to an existing variable. A space is inserted if the value was not 
> empty."
> Is there a possibility to avoid this extra space?

Not with a "+=" assignment.

You can do something like this:

	Target = $(Target)_rel

Note that the () around the variable name are required, because "_rel"
would otherswise be part of the variable name: $Target_rel.

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