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Re: Shell comments in make rules
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Stefano Lattarini |
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Re: Shell comments in make rules |
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Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:28:02 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:11:11PM CET:
> > On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> > > > But even if it doesn't, shouldn't the comment in question be consired
> > > > a shell comment anyway? If that's not the case, well, I'd regard this
> > > > behaviour as a severe bug in the OSF make implementation.
> > >
> > > Yes, and it is quite well documented in
> > > info Autoconf 'Comments in Make Rules'
> > But that only says:
> > "Some make treat anything starting with a tab as a command for the
> > current rule, even if the tab is immediately followed by a #."
> > which is not relvant for the current situation.
>
> Of course it is. It means that you cannot put comments anywhere
> in a makefile recipe command.
Hmm... No, IMVHO it means that *starting* a command in a make recipe
with a `#' is not portable. If the intended meaning was that using
a shell comment *anywhere* in a make recipe is not portable, then I
think we've found a documentation bug in autoconf.
Regards,
Stefano
Re: Testsuite failures on Tru64 OSF 5.1, Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/11/15
- Re: Testsuite failures on Tru64 OSF 5.1, Stefano Lattarini, 2010/11/15
- backcompat5.test: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands. (was: Testsuite failures on Tru64 OSF 5.1), Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/11/16
- Shell comments in make rules (was: backcompat5.test: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands), Stefano Lattarini, 2010/11/16
- Re: Shell comments in make rules (was: backcompat5.test: avoid '##'-style comments inside recipe commands), Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/11/16
- Re: Shell comments in make rules,
Stefano Lattarini <=
- Re: Shell comments in make rules, Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/11/16
- Re: Shell comments in make rules, Stefano Lattarini, 2010/11/16
Spurious failures of some silent*.test tests when cc != gcc (was: Testsuite failures on Tru64 OSF 5.1), Stefano Lattarini, 2010/11/17
Testsuite failures on Solaris 2.10 on SPARC (was: testsuite results from master), Stefano Lattarini, 2010/11/14
Re: testsuite results from master, Stefano Lattarini, 2010/11/14