Alan Burlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Andy Dougherty wrote:
>>
>> So the issue is that with GNU make (and 4.4BSD make), perl ends up
>> seeing
>>
>> -le 'eval {print "First line."} or print "Second line.";'
>>
>
>However, I've thought of a nasty hack: stick a '#' character before the \ -
>that way perl will ignore it:
>
>broke:
> @perl -le 'eval {print "First line."} \
> or print "Second line.";'
>ok:
> @perl -le 'eval {print "First line."} #\
> or print "Second line.";'
But that breaks the GNU makes which would see
-le 'eval {print "First line."} # or print "Second line.";'
and we just commented out the 2nd line ;-)
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