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Re: user hostile gobbledygook in top level Makefile


On Nov 22, 2000, Bill Wendling <wendling@ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> } "`test 'x$(BOOT_CFLAGS)' = x || echo 'BOOT_CFLAGS=$(BOOT_CFLAGS)'`"

> I like:

> "`test -z '$(BOOT_CFLAGS)' || ...

It's not as portable.  Granted, you'll seldom find BOOT_CFLAGS = '!=',
which is one of the cases in which `-z' would fail to work portably.

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