On Fri, 2021-12-24 at 23:30 +0000, Humm wrote: > (woops, sorry for replying off-list first; mutt doesn’t like me) > > Quoth Paul Smith: > > In your example the backslash is part of a variable expansion: it's > > INSIDE the variable expansion so it will be handled by make as part > > of expanding the variable and won't ever be passed to the shell. > > POSIX.1-2017 says about this (98624-98631):
Yep, I'm quite familiar with the text. I'm not entirely sure that this particular usage was envisioned, where the backslash appears inside a variable reference.
