Re: FYI: fix for PR/379

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

 Kevin> Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
 >> 
 >> * automake.in (read_am_file): Do not complain about backslashes
 >> before blank lines when the backslash is in a comment.

 Kevin> Umm, the stupid HP make which eats blank lines after a backslash also
 Kevin> does it to a backslash at the end of a comment line.

Thanks, I forgot about this.  Anyway, I had already reverted the patch.

[...]

 Kevin> Backslashes at the end of comments are a bit of a trap really, since
 Kevin> they eat the following line (both gnu and hp make), eg.

 Kevin> -------------------------
 Kevin> # comment \
 Kevin> more comment
 Kevin> -------------------------

This is mandated by POSIX, so it seems fine to support.  I've
seen people using this to feature to comment an entire variable
declaration as in

# A = foo \
      bar \
      baz

However this doesn't work with BSD make, hence Automake will
rewrite this automatically as

# A = foo \
#      bar \
#      baz

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz