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Re: [PATCH] Another BSD make incompatibility
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Tom Tromey |
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Re: [PATCH] Another BSD make incompatibility |
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03 Feb 2001 21:09:01 -0700 |
>>>>> "Derek" == Derek R Price <address@hidden> writes:
Derek> Found another bug in automake's support for dependencies using
Derek> BSD's make. This one is based on the fact that BSD make
Derek> doesn't allow comments to continue on the next line using '\'.
Derek> I just hooked into the existing conditional machinery instead
Derek> of stuffing "address@hidden@" as the first item in the DEP_FILES
Derek> list, as used to happen.
This is a clever patch.
I'm going to check it in.
Derek> +2000-12-29 Derek Price <address@hidden>
Derek> +
Derek> + * automake.in (handle_dependencies): switched the DEP_FILES
definition
Derek> + to use the &pretty_print conditional machinery rather than
shoving
Derek> + "address@hidden@" in as the first list element since BSD make
doesn't seem to
Derek> + be able to handle backslashes for continuing comments on the
following
Derek> + line
Derek> +
FYI explanatory comments belong in the program, not the ChangeLog. At
least, that's the automake style.
Tom
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