Re: am__append drops line continuation chars

[Kevin Ryde]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
>
> @@ -7337,6 +7332,11 @@
>        my $val = $var_value{$var}{$cond};
>        my $equals = $var_type{$var}{$cond} eq ':' ? ':=' : '=';
>        my $make_condition = make_condition ($cond);
> +
> +      # Suppress escaped new lines.  &pretty_print_internal will
> +      # add them back, maybe at other places.
> +      $val =~ s/\\$//mg;

Looking at the cvs, this $val subst seems to have ended up before the
my $val, provoking

    Global symbol "$val" requires explicit package name at 
/home/gg/mp/usr-new/bin/automake line 7134.