%% Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:16:17 -0400 >> Cc: [email protected] >> From: "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> So for example, if you had a rule like this: >> >> echo foo \ >> bar
>> After this change, and according to POSIX, that's not how make is >> supposed to work. Make is supposed to preserve the backslash-newline >> and hand it over to the shell, and let the _shell_ deal with it. ez> In that case, I think this feature needs to be turned off on ez> non-Posix platforms. It will never work reliably; with most ez> shells available on Windows, it will simply fail, AFAIK. At the ez> very least, it should be turned off when the shell is not a Unixy ez> shell. OK, well, can someone please suggest the best way to manage this in the code? Should we use the check for unixy_shell? Or...? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
