make's apparent weird behaviour

[Sergio Villone]

as requested,I report the offending maketile,
the result and my comment directly here in
the mail body:
------------makefile-------------
.SILENT :;
SHELL:="/bin/tcsh"

$(info =========shell:$(SHELL))

define heastuff
echo "------heastuff----$(1)--------"
#aa create necessary vars
endef

.DEFAULT_GOAL:=all

.PHONY : all

all: doheastuff
echo "all done"

.PHONY:doheastuff

doheastuff:;
echo "••••doheastuff_heanm:>$(heanm)<"
$(foreach nm,$(heanm),$(call heastuff,$(nm)))
-------end of makefile------------------
-----result is-------------------------
=========shell:"/bin/tcsh"
••••doheastuff_heanm:>bug<
------heastuff----bug--------
#aa: Command not found.
make: *** [doheastuff] Error 1
---------end of result-------------
the makefile I reported here is a "stripped down"
version of the one that gives me problem,so don't
care about the strange names and the possibly
useless "echo"and "info" checks..
the problem lies in that "#aa: Command not found."
error in what should have simply been just a
comment in the makefile...I suppose that somewhere a tab is inserted
before the '#' and the entire line is considered
to be a command for the shell,but if this means that one
cannot put a comment in the define's body,at least
if one's shell is cshell,I ihink this is not
mentioned in the manual,otherwise stick me again
on my fingers and I'll stay quiet ;-(
or perhaps it's again a Posix derived "feature"...
the make -v says:
-----------make -v ------------
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i386-apple-darwin10.0
----------end of -v output----------------------------
so long...

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