[Live-devel] liveMedia/FreeBSD : compilation fails on ar command

[Warren Young]

On 6/2/2012 12:55 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
>
> the command
> genMakefiles freebsd
> should be putting this space character in the Makefiles OK.

Sure, but that doesn't fix the fact that BSD make will strip them right 
back out.  I think that's what the OP has run into.

I said it before in this thread, but you didn't reply, so I'll repeat it 
in case you missed it: by expecting make(1) to retain trailing spaces in 
a variable assignment, you have made an implicit dependency on GNU make, 
which isn't a safe assumption on FreeBSD.