On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:57:14PM CET: > > On Monday 15 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:00:16PM CET: > > > > <http://autobuild.josefsson.org/automake/log-201011141902490189000.txt> > > > > > > > > FAIL: backcompat5.test (exit: 1) > > > > > ================================ > > > > > > > > > [CUT] > > > > > find ../foo-1.0 -print ## useful for debugging > > > > > find: missing conjunction > > > > > *** Exit 1 > > > > > Stop. > > > > Seems like a limitation (bug) of the find utility; what I'd do is > > > > replacing the above find command simply with: > > > > find ../foo-1.0 > > > > WDYT? > > > > > > I think the comment is taken as part of the command. > > Hmm... that's an automake comment: shouldn't automake strip it? > > Quoting automake.info: > > Automake also allows a form of comment that is _not_ copied into the > output; all lines beginning with `##' (leading spaces allowed) are > completely ignored by Automake. > > Letting automake strip '##.*' within recipe commands is not safe, if we > acknowledge that some makes obey decent quoting semantics (keeping '#' > inside single- or double-quoted strings) and the user may rely on that. That makes definitely sense; sorry for my stupid misunderstanding. Oh well, at least I've learnt something new today.
> > 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. And BTW, if I'm not mistaken, Automake warns about that unportability (which is why I managed to avoid it in many if not all my previous patches). Regards, Stefano
