I had a simple variable definition in my makefile: THIS := ~/edan and it had trailing spaces in the line. Later, when I defined another variable in terms of this one: WARES := $(THIS)/wares the actual variable defined was /home/directory/edan wares and then the make clean rule removed /home/directory/edan instead...
I am logged in as a regular user. Should I use: ./configure && make && make install or sudo ./configure && sudo make && sudo make install or ./configure && make && sudo make install when installing packages. And could someone explain the differences. I want all users to be able to use it. ...
I need to convert all paths with '\' in them to '/'. The makefile is quite long and doing this manually is impossible. Is there some way to quickly convert them? Keep in mind that a global replace is not possible because '\' is also used to denote that a command is continued on the following line. ...