Your Make Info document does not tell the user how to break his variable assignments without tears. So mention it explicitly right upon the relevant page.
$ make this is long line 1 that I would li ke to break this is long line 2 that I would like to break $ cat makefile A=this is long line 1 that I would li\ ke to break B=this is long line 2 that I would li$(\ )ke to break g: @echo $A @echo $B _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make