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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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