On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * 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. Hmm... No, IMVHO it means that *starting* a command in a make recipe with a `#' is not portable. If the intended meaning was that using a shell comment *anywhere* in a make recipe is not portable, then I think we've found a documentation bug in autoconf.
Regards, Stefano
