Re: \ at the end of a comment is not ignored.

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Sanjeeb Sahoo" <address@hidden> writes:

  ss> Looks like the '\' character at the end of a comment continues to
  ss> have the same special meaning. Please refer to the 3 liner
  ss> makefile attached here with. when I invoke make, I get the
  ss> following error...  Makefile:3: *** commands commence before first
  ss> target.  Stop.

  ss> When I remove the \ char fro the comment, it works fine. Should
  ss> make not disable the special meaning of \ when it sees it in a
  ss> comment line?

No.  The POSIX standard requires the current behavior.

IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, Chapter 4--Utilities, Section "make":

  23527  Comments start with a number sign ('#') and continue until an
         unescaped <newline> is
  23528  reached.

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