On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Georg Schwarz wrote:
> How can I specify a variable that ends on a whitespace character (e.g.
> in /etc/mk.conf or some other bmake script)?

make(1) usually ignores leading and trailing spaces in variable
assignments, so you have to trick it.  The :C/// modifier is one way to
do it:

_X= x
_SPACE= ${_X:C/x/ /}
_OPSYS_RPATH_NAME= -rpath${_SPACE}
test:
        echo Foo ${_OPSYS_RPATH_NAME:Q}bar

--apb (Alan Barrett)