Re: backslashes in variable definition

[Andrew Suffield <asuffield at debian dot org>]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 04:38:23PM +0200, Volker Boerchers wrote:
> the _SOURCES values of our Makefile.am's are split into multiple lines
> to improve readability like this
> 
>   libfoo_la_SOURCES = \
> 	foo.c \
> 	bar.c
> 
> However if one forgets a backslash the source files after that are
> silently ignored by automake.
> 
>   libfoo_la_SOURCES = \
>         foo.c                  # missing '\' 
>         bar.c
> 
> These errors are hard to detect, at least for libraries since missing
> dependencies are detected later.

You should see the error you get if you do this:

libfoo_la_SOURCES = \
#        foo.c \
        bar.c

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