Re: meaning of # in the variable used as a list of targets

2023-02-26 Thread Arkadiusz Drabczyk
On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 01:54:14PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > The manual is making this statement because in a define/endef people > use comments without really considering how they are handled so it > seemed prudent to call it out specifically. But the statement made > there is less clear than it

Re: meaning of # in the variable used as a list of targets

2023-02-26 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2023-02-26 at 19:19 +0100, Arkadiusz Drabczyk wrote: > In the manual it says: > > "Within a @code{define} directive, comments are not ignored during > the definition of the variable, but rather kept intact in the value > of the variable.  When the variable is expanded they will either be >

meaning of # in the variable used as a list of targets

2023-02-26 Thread Arkadiusz Drabczyk
In the manual it says: "Within a @code{define} directive, comments are not ignored during the definition of the variable, but rather kept intact in the value of the variable. When the variable is expanded they will either be treated as @code{make} comments or as recipe text, depending on the cont