On 7:01:33 pm 2005-07-12 "Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> %% Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ez> Yes, I think testing unixy_shell would be okay.
>
> Good stuff; so if !unixy_shell we want to go back to the old model,
> where make would eat the backslash-newline pair before invoking the
> shell, right?
>
> What about the TAB on the next line? In POSIX if the first character
> after a backslash-newline is a TAB, make will remove it from the
> command script to be invoked.
>
Would it remove the tab or change it to a space?
> The other change between the old behavior and new behavior was that
> make used to replace the backslash-newline with a space. So, if you
> had this:
>
> echo foo\
> bar
>
> would print "foo bar". In POSIX, no whitespace is added so this
> would print "foobar".
>
> I like the POSIX way better but it's not backward-compatible so it's
> up to you guys.
>
As long as tab is converted to space then not converting \\n to a space
would be ok.
So:
echo foo\
bar
prints "foo bar" while
echo foo\
bar
prints "foobar"
Earnie
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