On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:28:02PM CET: > > On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:11:11PM CET: > > > > On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > > > > > > > But even if it doesn't, shouldn't the comment in question be > > > > > > consired > > > > > > a shell comment anyway? If that's not the case, well, I'd regard > > > > > > this > > > > > > behaviour as a severe bug in the OSF make implementation. > > > > > > > > > > Yes, and it is quite well documented in > > > > > info Autoconf 'Comments in Make Rules' > > > > But that only says: > > > > "Some make treat anything starting with a tab as a command for the > > > > current rule, even if the tab is immediately followed by a #." > > > > which is not relvant for the current situation. > > > > > > Of course it is. It means that you cannot put comments anywhere > > > in a makefile recipe command. > > Hmm... No, IMVHO it means that *starting* a command in a make recipe > > with a `#' is not portable. > > That's not how I understand it. At least not in conjunction with the > previous sentence, which is about as clear as it can get: > > Never put comments in a rule. Hmpf, I don't know I missed that! That's pretty clear indeed.
Thanks and sorry for the noise, Stefano