On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:04:09 +0100, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Err, what are you trying to do? You have demonstrated here that
>> with the new make, you can concatenate words, the old make did not.
> [...]
>>> So it seems that it is not possible to make shell commands with
>>> line continuation work with both make versions, and one has to
>>> resort to the make variable solution.
>>
>> Trivial to make a makefile that echoes two words in the old and the
>> new version -- unless I am missing what you are trying to do?
> Daniel claimed that it was possible to write a Makefile that echos
> one word with both versions. That was what Robert was trying out
> and didn't work with Daniel's first suggestion, and with his second
> neither.
As far as I can tell, this is new functionality in the current
make, which can do both one word and two word out put with
continuation lines.
> You are right that it's hardly useful - just break the line
> elsewhere. But still that's the topic of the thread, and just
> telling people "there is no problem" without telling them why their
> imagined problem isn't real won't help out soon. It takes three
> mails by me and two by you...
Err, while this documentation shall be included well before
the final release (which is, according to schedule, about an year
away), complaining that I did not test out the package and discern
all little documentation issues with the new functionality that
people other than I would have a problem with is childish. While the
continuation issues did not affect my makefiles directly, I did not
consider the stanza in NEWS unclear (I know how POSIX shellshandle
newlines, I assume most DD's do as well). It is not easy to provide
helpful documentation for unclear areas when the areas are not
unclear to one.
Debian developers, and others using Sid, should be prepared
for minor lacunae in documentation; this is why we have unstable --
so minor mistakes and deficiencies can be uncovered.
People who can't figure out what is happening with the new
continuation behaviour should really consider running Sarge until we
have added the spoon feeding and training wheels to Etch.
In other words, if you want release quality stuff, don't use
Sid, and don't hector people who upload to Sid early, and often, and
use the feedback to improve packages and documentation.
manoj
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