Some other make interprets contents of comment? That doesn't seem right.
I believe that 'our' make behaviour is more right.

OTOH, I just checked SUSv3, and it specifies that comments start
with hash and continue until unescaped newline is reached.

So, we should do the same; send-pr standards PR, please.

Jaromir

Patrick Welche wrote:
> Just discovered on the automake list that our make doesn't honour escaped
> comment lines, eg
> 
> 
> # hello \
>   there
> 
> which one might guess would be possible according to the man page. (Though
> it does say "In general", so maybe we could add "(not in comment lines)")
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Patrick
> 


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