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authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>1992-06-12 23:12:20 +0000
committerRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>1992-06-12 23:12:20 +0000
commit3dbe309fce911587a16db736d346a7ca172500c4 (patch)
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parent87c5a97b91f55c283e954615a63b33aed73aff40 (diff)
downloadgunmake-3dbe309fce911587a16db736d346a7ca172500c4.tar.gz
Formerly make.texinfo.~27~
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@@ -2213,12 +2213,12 @@ foo : bar/lose
The program used as the shell is taken from the variable @code{SHELL}.
By default, the program @file{/bin/sh} is used.
-Unlike most variables, the variable @code{SHELL} will not be set from
-the environment, except in a recursive @code{make}. This is because the
-@code{SHELL} environment variable is used to specify your personal
-choice of shell program for interactive use. It would be very bad for
-personal choices like this to affect the functioning of makefiles.
-@xref{Environment, ,Variables from the Environment}.
+Unlike most variables, the variable @code{SHELL} is never set from the
+environment. This is because the @code{SHELL} environment variable is
+used to specify your personal choice of shell program for interactive
+use. It would be very bad for personal choices like this to affect
+the functioning of makefiles. @xref{Environment, ,Variables from the
+Environment}.
@node Parallel, Errors, Execution, Commands
@section Parallel Execution
@@ -3570,6 +3570,25 @@ Expand all variable references in @var{arg1} and @var{arg2} and
compare them. If they are identical, the @var{text-if-true} is
effective; otherwise, the @var{text-if-false}, if any, is effective.
+Often you want to test if a variable has a non-empty value. When the
+value results from complex expansions of variables and functions,
+expansions you would consider empty may actually contain whitespace
+characters and thus are not seen as empty. However, you can use the
+@code{strip} function to avoid interpreting whitespace as a non-empty
+value. For example:
+
+@example
+@group
+ifeq ($(strip $(foo)),)
+@var{text-if-empty}
+endif
+@end group
+@end example
+
+@noindent
+will evaluate @var{text-if-empty} even if the expansion of
+@code{$(foo)} contains whitespace characters.
+
@item ifneq (@var{arg1}, @var{arg2})
@itemx ifneq '@var{arg1}' '@var{arg2}'
@itemx ifneq "@var{arg1}" "@var{arg2}"