Markus Schatzl [2006-05-13, 21:06:42]: > On Fri, 21 09:15 , steven mestdagh wrote: > > Markus Schatzl [2006-04-20, 04:09:59]: > > > Hi list, > > > > > > quite late right now; I just wanted to drop a note that "make > > > describe" doesn't work like expected, should you have a > > > hash-sign (#) inside the ports COMMENT. Probably an issue of two > > > quotes. > > > > # just means comments in make(1). but if you really need a #, you can > > escape it, like COMMENT="foo \# bar". > > Thats clear, but the OpenBSD Makefiles are parsed before their > content is handed over to make. I realize that for the few times > a hashsign is needed, escaping it is not an issue. On the other > hand I suspected the scripts only consider a ^# as a comment. I > didn't have a look at the code though.
which scripts are you talking about? afaik the function strip_comments in usr.bin/make/parse.c deals with this. steven Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
