On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Baurjan Ismagulov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 01:10:39PM +0000, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > > I need to be certain that this jade-mandated # isn't going to be eaten by > > make but will be passed intact to the shell. > > I use a recent GNU make under Linux, and this character is not > interpreted as comment in the command line. Just try that; if it works, > it should be enough for you provided you are going to setup your working > environment once and use it for rendering.
Whilst I'm an empiracist at theart I was hoping that there would be some documented/supported way of doing this. > On the other hand, if you need your document to work properly with many > various implementations of make, you'll have to find a portable way to > do that. Now that's a challenge I was trying to avoid. But yes the goal is ultimately to provide a portable Makefile. The recenlty announced GPLed re-implemention of ML/I has portable Makefile s in its kit. But with a goal like empiricism can be trusted. Regards, Trevor British Sign Language is not inarticulate handwaving; it's a living language. Support the campaign for formal recognition by the British government now! Details at http://www.fdp.org.uk/ or http://www.bsl-march.co.uk/ -- <>< Re: deemed!
