Re: Problem compiling on HP-UX 11i (32 Bit).

From: Alex Rousskov <rousskov@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:07:56 -0700 (MST)

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> On Monday 07 January 2002 16.36, Alex Rousskov wrote:
> > FWIW, I think the Makefile that contains "blank continuation lines" is
> > of questionable quality itself (regardless of what Makefile "standard"
> > is, if there is such a standard at all) and should be improved.
>
> To this I do not agree. Such "blank continuation lines" includes
> constructs like
>
> variables = long list of values \
> more values ... \
> @automake_variable_that_may_be_empty@
>
> Which I consider quite valid and correct use of continuation lines
>
>
> I agree that intentionally written blank lines is bad standard, but is not
> exacly what we are talking about here.

The above is intentionally written blank line if you know that
@automake_variable_that_may_be_empty@ may be empty.

Alex.
Received on Mon Jan 07 2002 - 11:08:00 MST

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