On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:38:23PM +0200, Volker Boerchers wrote: > the _SOURCES values of our Makefile.am's are split into multiple lines > to improve readability like this > > libfoo_la_SOURCES = \ > foo.c \ > bar.c > > However if one forgets a backslash the source files after that are > silently ignored by automake. > > libfoo_la_SOURCES = \ > foo.c # missing '\' > bar.c > > These errors are hard to detect, at least for libraries since missing > dependencies are detected later.
You should see the error you get if you do this:
libfoo_la_SOURCES = \
# foo.c \
bar.c
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