>> If you break a line, please start the new line with the operator:
>>
>> -test -d "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)" \
>> || $(mkinstalldirs) "$(DESTDIR)$(bindir)";
>
> (Interesting. I have binary operators at the end of the line as,
> like a hyphen in text, they indicate there's more to follow.)
Starting with the operator is GNU style, AFAIK, and it is used
throughout the groff code.
>> $(srcdir)/grog.pl >$@; \
>> chmod +x $@;
>
> The former will have make(1) stop if grog.pl fails whereas the
> latter will ignore that and use chmod's success. `&&' would avoid
> this in the latter though I wonder, without context, if the two
> commands need to be in the one sh invocation? Both create $@ even
> on failure, perhaps causing the target to be considered `built' next
> time. `grog.pl >$@.new && mv $@.new $@' might help.
Feel free to improve that :-) The `\' has been there previously, and
I always try to go the route of least surprise, this is, being as
minimally invasive as possible.
Werner
