Re: Formatting for longer function parameters

2015-01-20 Thread SF Markus Elfring
> Will the line continuation work also with the backslash character there? > http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Splitting-Lines.html I have found out that it works generally. But I do not like the documented behaviour at some places of my make scripts. "… Outside of recipe lines,

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