Escaping of dollar signs

2015-01-15 Thread SF Markus Elfring
Hello, The rule syntax description mentions an use case where it will be needed to work with four dollar signs. The description of the eval function points also out to be careful with the $ character. Can it happen that even more "dollars" are needed when several variables are called for evaluati

Formatting for longer function parameters

2015-01-15 Thread SF Markus Elfring
Hello, Several parameters can be passed to user-defined make functions. http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Syntax-of-Functions.html Some strings can become longer. So I see a need occasionally to distribute the parameter list over more lines for better build script readability. I