Re: Problem with backslash/newline on DOS/Windows/OS2/etc.?

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Earnie Boyd" <address@hidden> writes:

  eb> Would it remove the tab or change it to a space?

On a POSIX system it's removed.

  eb> As long as tab is converted to space then not converting \\n to a space
  eb> would be ok.

  eb> So:

  eb>         echo foo\
  eb>         bar

  eb> prints "foo bar" while

  eb>         echo foo\
  eb> bar

  eb> prints "foobar"

OK... if that's the way you want it I guess it's your port.  This is not
compatible with UNIX/POSIX, however, which means that makefiles written
on one system will have even less chance of working "out of the box" on
the other system.


My preference would be to keep this behavior identical between
systems (that is, remove the TAB and do not add a space)... one less
difference between ports is a good thing in my book.

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