Subject: Re: Moving some script magic out of bsd.pkg.mk
To: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/06/2000 11:48:17
I'll submit 75% on this :) its a nice solution, but its a little
non intuitive :)
David/absolute
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > We can use comments in the scripts.
>
> The ":" command can be used as a substitute for comments:
>
> a.out: foo.c bar.h
> a long shell script ; \
> with lots of lines ; \
> and lots of backslashes ; \
> : "think of this as a comment" ; \
> more shell commands here ; \
> this is the last line
>
> --apb (Alan Barrett)
>