Re: comment after trailing backslash inconsistent warning

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Karl Berry wrote on Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:10:31AM CEST:
> The line numbers are probably off now since I made more
> changes since sending the message, but the essential point is that it
> complains about \
> #
> at the end of man1_MANS definition (it is not present below), but does
> not complain about the same at the end of EXTRA_DIST (twice).

Confirmed.  What is much more disconcerting though, is that automake is
completely ignoring those EXTRA_DIST additions that end in backslash
newline hash (i.e., they never make it into Makefile.in).  Ewww, silent
breakage.  Will investigate.

Cheers, and thanks again for the report,
Ralf