[ On Monday, July 29, 2002 at 21:05:23 (+0100), David Laight wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: make and comments
>
> What about continuation lines that look like comments:
> 
> 	command args \
> # more text \
> 		even more text
> 
> How should that be parsed?

It should be parsed as one whole line, just as /bin/sh sees it, though
it doesn't help relieve any of the confusion.....  :-)

	$ foo\
	#bar\
	none
	foo#barnone: not found
	$ 

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