Re: [PATCH] Another BSD make incompatibility

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Derek" == Derek R Price <address@hidden> writes:

Derek> Found another bug in automake's support for dependencies using
Derek> BSD's make.  This one is based on the fact that BSD make
Derek> doesn't allow comments to continue on the next line using '\'.
Derek> I just hooked into the existing conditional machinery instead
Derek> of stuffing "address@hidden@" as the first item in the DEP_FILES
Derek> list, as used to happen.

This is a clever patch.

I'm going to check it in.

Derek> +2000-12-29  Derek Price  <address@hidden>
Derek> +
Derek> +        * automake.in (handle_dependencies): switched the DEP_FILES 
definition
Derek> +        to use the &pretty_print conditional machinery rather than 
shoving
Derek> +        "address@hidden@" in as the first list element since BSD make 
doesn't seem to
Derek> +        be able to handle backslashes for continuing comments on the 
following
Derek> +        line
Derek> +

FYI explanatory comments belong in the program, not the ChangeLog.  At
least, that's the automake style.

Tom