Subject: Re: make: removing/replace spaces in expansion?
To: <>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 05/21/2002 10:41:42 
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:28:15PM -0700, Simon Gerraty wrote:
> One can of course:
> 
>     @x=`echo ${LIST} | tr ' ' '|'`; echo $$x

or
	@x=`set -- - ${LIST}; shift; IFS='|'; echo "$*"`

Maybe make just needs IFS implemented :-)

(the extra - and shift are because I'm paranoid! At least one
shell I've met treated 'set --' as 'set'....)

	David

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