Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com https://snipplr.com/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:22:24 +0000 https://snipplr.com/view/26103/search-for-or-replace-spaces <p>Make (and GMake) ignore spaces in many constructs, making it difficult to use a single space as a search string or a replacement string, for example. This trick works around the problem by assigning the space to a variable named SPACE and using that instead. So given this makefile: NOTHING:= SPACE:=$(NOTHING) $(NOTHING) NAME_WITH_UNDERSCORES:=$(subst $(SPACE),_,$(NAME)) print : ; @echo $(NAME_WITH_UNDERSCORES) The command gmake NAME="Professor Hubert Farnsworth" would print Professor_Hubert_Farnsworth</p> Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:21:16 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/26103/search-for-or-replace-spaces https://snipplr.com/view/26102/rule-to-dump-any-makefile-variable <p>This rule lets you print the contents of any variable for debugging purposes. Usage: > gmake echo_SOURCES SOURCES = main.c foo.c</p> Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:03:56 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/26102/rule-to-dump-any-makefile-variable