[bug #23468] end-of-line backslashes fails with perl (Cygwin, although I strongly believe it's general problem)

[anonymous]

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                 Summary: end-of-line backslashes fails with perl  (Cygwin,
although I strongly believe it's general problem)
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tuesday 06/03/2008 at 03:47 UTC
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Bug
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: 3.81
        Operating System: Any
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

Makefile that produce this bug is attached.
There are two targets in the makefile.  These two targets should be
identical, except that one of them is using backslashes to break lines.
As said in the summary (title), the target with backslashes fails.

Although this is seen in Cygwin, I believe it is a general issue.
An evidence is:
I did try to do both unix2dos, and dos2unix on Makefile. Same results.

Make v3.80 works well, but Make v3.81 fails on the backslash target.

See the attached Makefile (and input file) for detail.




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File Attachments:


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Date: Tuesday 06/03/2008 at 03:47 UTC  Name: Makefile  Size: 1kB   By: None

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=15786>
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Date: Tuesday 06/03/2008 at 03:47 UTC  Name: input.txt  Size: 71B   By: None

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=15787>

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