[OE-core] [PATCH 4/4] gettext_0.16.1: whitespace changes to align with v0.19.8.1

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, André Draszik wrote:

> +LDFLAGS_prepend_libc-uclibc = " -lrt -lpthread "

  i'm not a big fan of doing the above; that is, adding *both* leading
and trailing space to a string, just to play it safe. i know it
doesn't hurt, but it's sloppy and might actually conceal incorrect
string values elsewhere.

  if you're "_append"ing, then the string should have only a leading
space; if you're "_prepend"ing, then only a trailing space. the reason
for that is that, if you're rigorous like that, you might actually
catch a string that *doesn't* have the appropriate spaces, but is
getting away with it only because a string elsewhere is being generous
and covering for it.

  and, yes, i *am* that pedantic.

rday

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