Re: Shell comments in make rules

[Stefano Lattarini]

On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:11:11PM CET:
> > On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > 
> > > > But even if it doesn't, shouldn't the comment in question be consired
> > > > a shell comment anyway?  If that's not the case, well, I'd regard this
> > > > behaviour as a severe bug in the OSF make implementation.
> > > 
> > > Yes, and it is quite well documented in
> > >   info Autoconf 'Comments in Make Rules'
> > But that only says:
> >  "Some make treat anything starting with a tab as a command for the
> >   current rule, even if the tab is immediately followed by a #."
> > which is not relvant for the current situation.
> 
> Of course it is.  It means that you cannot put comments anywhere
> in a makefile recipe command.
Hmm... No, IMVHO it means that *starting* a command in a make recipe
with a `#' is not portable.  If the intended meaning was that using
a shell comment *anywhere* in a make recipe is not portable, then I
think we've found a documentation bug in autoconf.

Regards,
  Stefano