On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote: ... > The reality is that make's escaping features are inconsistent at best > and fairly useless at worst. The trailing whitespace thing is really > only the tip of the iceberg. But, it's a large iceberg and virtually > any possible solution would mean breaking lots of existing makefiles. > That's the problem with a legacy application like make.
But what about changing the behavior as a user-selectable option (and have it recognized by a special MAKE_?) environment variable)? > The people who wrote POSIX have used many, many more various > implementations of make than almost anyone reading this list. And, make > was commonplace long before POSIX was even a glimmer in someone's eye. I know---that was a stupid statement I made. Thanks, Paul. -Tom _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
