Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 00:05:17 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 598 ************************************************** Sunday 07 August 2005 Number 598 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: make 3.81 Beta 3 : Andreas Buening **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:23:03 +0200 From: Andreas Buening Subject: Re: make 3.81 Beta 3 Steven Levine wrote: > > In <20050806010845.48A03B6B66 at generation.lgisp.net>, on 08/05/05 > While this is not a bad idea, it is going to break a lot of existing > makefiles. I've seen any number of makefiles that omit the space before > the backslash and start the next line in column 1. Also, note that IBM's > nmake documents that backslash-newline converts to to a single blank. > > There's also the issue that many OS/2 shells will not take kindly to > newlines in the passed commands. I think this applies to Unix shells only but I haven't tested cmd handling extensively. > >According to the ChangeLog entry, the old behaviour was fixed 6 weeks > >ago. Took a long time to find out. :-( > > I'd rather say the existing behavior was modified. This was communicated by the maintainer as a change for better Posix compliance. Certainly, it will break some existing Makefiles but that is not specific to OS/2. Bye, Andreas