| This is very possibly a bug on the part of HP, but it might be worth
| mentioning. It doesn't happen on a hppa hpux 11.00 I tried.
|
| * hpmake/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Make): Add HP-UX IA-64 trailing
| backslashes.
Wow! Thanks for the report. CC'ed to automake for their information.
| --- autoconf.texi.old Mon Jul 15 12:51:14 2002
| +++ autoconf.texi Wed Jul 17 08:34:44 2002
| @@ -10150,6 +10150,23 @@
| this is test
| @end example
|
| +@item Trailing backslash in macro
| +HP-UX 11.20 on IA-64 will read multiple newlines following a
| +backslash, continuing to the next non-empty line. For example,
| +
| +@example
| +FOO = one \
| +
| +BAR = two
| +
| +test:
| + : FOO is "$(FOO)"
| + : BAR is "$(BAR)"
| +@end example
| +
@noindent
| +shows @code{FOO} equal to @code{one BAR = two}. Other Makes sensibly
| +let a backslash continue only to the immediately following line.
| +
| @item @code{make macro=value} and sub-@command{make}s.
|
| A command-line variable definition such as @code{foo=bar} overrides any
Please, install.
