Re: bmake variable expansion: ${X:ts:}

[Brook Milligan <brook%nmsu.edu@localhost>]

> On Jul 5, 2022, at 2:03 PM, RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost> wrote:
> 
> :ts won't produce new words without a whitespace there.

OK, so what does the following from bmake(1) mean?

     :tsc
          Words in the variable are normally separated by a space on expan-
          sion.  This modifier sets the separator to the character c.  If c is
          omitted, then no separator is used.  The common escapes (including
          octal numeric codes), work as expected.

If :ts will not break a variable into a new set of words based upon the separator, what does it do?  What is it for?

> This do the job?

Yes.  Manually adding whitespace and then breaking on whitespace will work.  That seems like extra complications to accomplish what it sounds like :ts is supposed to do.

What am I missing?

Cheers,
Brook