Re: Conditional broken line in recipe

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 2023-09-03 at 13:20 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Never mind; a python script could be it.

Any language where a backslash at the end of the line changes the
semantics of the script is difficult to use as a make SHELL, without
also using .ONESHELL, because backslash/newline must be used to ensure
make interprets the recipe correctly, AND ALSO make preserves the
backslash/newline when it invokes the script.

Both Python and Perl fall into this category IIRC.  In fact I consider
it likely that almost every scripting language does, although it might
be possible to avoid issues with obscure workarounds.

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