On Tue, 2020-07-28 at 08:07 +0300, Ivan Kozlov wrote: > Doubling the backslash suppresses special newline handling in GNU > make. I don’t see anything in the standard that allows this. It > defines an escaped newline as one preceded by a backslash and doesn’t > say anything about backslashes being treated specially otherwise.
It is documented behavior in the GNU make manual so I'm not going to change this for standard makefiles. However, we could consider making it work differently for makefiles where .POSIX: is set. I am not really excited about doing that but we can consider it.
