Re: blank line following trailing backslash

2009-01-26 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:47:26AM CET: > On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> Jan already provided a way around this. Here's why automake warns about >> it at all: it is not portable to have a backslash followed by a blank >> line, as some make implementations ar

Re: blank line following trailing backslash

2009-01-26 Thread Andreas
Am Montag, 26. Januar 2009 schrieb Ralf Wildenhues: > Hello Andreas, > > * Andreas wrote on Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 06:42:52PM CET: > > fileA.c \ > > fileB.c \ > > fileC.c > > [...] > > > This is not nice so I thought well let's add a backslash after the > > last file and add an empty line

Re: blank line following trailing backslash

2009-01-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Jan already provided a way around this. Here's why automake warns about it at all: it is not portable to have a backslash followed by a blank line, as some make implementations are rather unpredictable with it: However, Automake could offer to re-wri

Re: blank line following trailing backslash

2009-01-26 Thread Harlan Stenn
* Andreas wrote on Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 06:42:52PM CET: > fileA.c \ > fileB.c \ > fileC.c > [...] I do it this way: NULL= ... FOO= \ fileA.c\ fileB.c\ $(NULL) BAR= \ fileC.c\ fileD.c\ $(NULL) Mostly I do this so it is easy for me to "sor

Re: blank line following trailing backslash

2009-01-26 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Andreas, * Andreas wrote on Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 06:42:52PM CET: > fileA.c \ > fileB.c \ > fileC.c [...] > This is not nice so I thought well let's add a backslash after the > last file and add an empty line at the end. Then there's no need to > modify the fileC line and everybod

Re: blank line following trailing backslash

2009-01-26 Thread Raja R Harinath
Hi, Andreas writes: > I just had an ingenious idea to limit conflicts in versioning systems. > > When you specify a list of files for a rule you put every file in a line like > this. > > fileA.c \ > fileB.c \ > fileC.c One slightly ugly-looking approach I've seen is EMPTY = fo

Re: blank line following trailing backslash

2009-01-25 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sunday 2009-01-25 18:42, Andreas wrote: > >When you specify a list of files for a rule you put every file in a line like >this. > >fileA.c \ >fileB.c \ >fileC.c > >now if 2 independent people add another file fileD and fileE to that list you >have a conflict because both of them m

blank line following trailing backslash

2009-01-25 Thread Andreas
Hello everybody, I just had an ingenious idea to limit conflicts in versioning systems. When you specify a list of files for a rule you put every file in a line like this. fileA.c \ fileB.c \ fileC.c now if 2 independent people add another file fileD and fileE to that list you hav