Hi,
"Robert Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dean Povey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Bugs/Features in handling of continued Makefile rules
>> ??? wrote:
>> >Use
>> >## Comment
>> >They get omitted from Makefile.in.
>>
>> I know about ##, I just thought handling # in Make rules by omitting them
>> was a nicer then printing an error message.
>
> Ah, that makes more sense. What about moving the comment before/after
> the rule? That would preserve the comment (which is presumably the
> reason it was entered) and save the Makefile.in semantics.
Yep.
However, I wouldn't want Automake to move the comments. Automake
isn't, and doesn't try to be, a make-rule validator for the
user-written rules in Makefile.am. It should not move things around
inside the rules nor should it remove or add lines to those rules.
- Hari
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