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

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