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Re: Bugs/Features in handling of continued Makefile rules
- To: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Subject: Re: Bugs/Features in handling of continued Makefile rules
- From: Dean Povey <povey at dstc dot qut dot edu dot au>
- Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 08:50:33 +1000
- cc: automake at gnu dot org
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dpovey@wedgetail.com [mailto:dpovey@wedgetail.com]
>>
>>
>> 3. Because of a stupidity in Tru64 make, automake displays
>> an error message if comments are found immediately after
>> the tab (plus
>> zero/more whitespace). I think perhaps a nicer approach
>> would be for
>> automake to allow comments in the .am and omit them from
>> the Makefile.in
>> output.
>
>Use
>## Comment
>They get omitted from Makefile.in.
I know about ##, I just thought handling # in Make rules by omitting them
was a nicer then printing an error message.
Dean.