RE: Breaking from a for loop?

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 11:03 +0000, David Aldrich wrote:
>             else :; fi;                                      \        

You have lots of whitespace after the backslash here.

Only a backslash followed immediately by a newline escapes the newline.
Backslash followed by extra spaces does not.

I highly recommend using an editor with features that will automatically
removed (or at least flag) trailing whitespace in your makefiles (Emacs
will do this for example).

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