On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:53:00PM EDT, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Tim,
>
> * Tim Frink wrote on Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 08:13:50PM CEST:
> > ruleA:
> > $(call ruleB,file1)
> >
> > ruleB = \
> > if [ -f $(1) ] && [ -f file2 ]; then \
> > awk '/^#/ { next } {print}' file2; \
> > else \
> > exit 1; \
> > fi;
>
> > When "make" now runs the target "ruleA" I get the error message:
> >
> > /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
> > /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>
> Everything from the # to the end of the line will be considered to be a
> comment, and not passed to the shell. Posix also specifies that
> comments continue across backslash newline combinations, but some
> non-GNU make implementations don't obey that.
Hehe.. even my mutt's syntax coloring tells me that..!!
:-)
