[bug #16505] Line-continuation backslashes are not stripped

2006-05-04 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Follow-up Comment #11, bug #16505 (project make): I can understand everything you are saying -- the backward incompatibility, the suggestion to add an explicit warning, the works. The only thing I do NOT understand is why do you insist on telling about the EOF error etc., when you have at least

[bug #16505] Line-continuation backslashes are not stripped

2006-05-04 Thread anonymous
Follow-up Comment #12, bug #16505 (project make): I understand the workarounds. (Make variables are probably the way to go, because double-quoting script languages tends to be cumbersome.) My makefiles won't be that much of a problem, anyway, compared to those of others---I first encountered