Follow-up Comment #1, bug #16505 (project make): This is not a regression, but a deliberate change whose purpose is to follow the Posix specifications. From NEWS:
------------- quotation ---------------------- * WARNING: Backward-incompatibility! In order to comply with POSIX, the way in which GNU make processes backslash-newline sequences in command strings has changed. If your makefiles use backslash-newline sequences inside of single-quoted strings in command scripts you will be impacted by this change. See the GNU make manual subsection "Splitting Command Lines" (node "Splitting Lines"), in section "Command Syntax", chapter "Writing the Commands in Rules", for details. ------------- end quotation ------------------- So your Makefile is in violation of Posix. The simplest change to get it to work is to use double quotes instead of single quotes (and escape the inner double quotes as appropriate). _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=16505> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make