* Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:11:11PM CET: > On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > 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.
Of course it is. It means that you cannot put comments anywhere in a makefile recipe command. It's why 'find' complained. Cheers, Ralf
