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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:12:01 +0300
From: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] implement size_append in perl
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 07:54:43 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 07/14/2010 07:01 AM, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> > +size_append = $(PERL) -e 'print pack("V", (stat "$(lastword $1)")[7])'
> 
> Why the "lastword"?

There's a whitespace right after it due to it being part of the target
spec "$(obj)/piggy.$(suffix_y) FORCE", where "FORCE" is being filtered
out.

Regards,
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Alex