| A number of times I have been bitten by missing backslashes at the end | of lines. Automake does not warn. A typical example is: | | if !HasX11 | TESTS_X11_XFAIL_TESTS = | tests/rwblob_XWD_bilevel.sh \ | tests/rwblob_XWD_gray.sh \ | tests/rwblob_XWD_pallette.sh \ | tests/rwblob_XWD_truecolor.sh \ | tests/rwfile_XWD_bilevel.sh \ | tests/rwfile_XWD_gray.sh \ | tests/rwfile_XWD_pallette.sh \ | tests/rwfile_XWD_truecolor.sh | endif | | Is there a way that Automake can reasonably produce warnings in this | case?
Not now. | Another issue with backslashes that I have encountered is that | Automake doesn't like them at the end of comment lines. It will issue | a diagnostic for | | # some text \ | # some more text \ Use `##' if you really want to suppress a line. | It seems to me that the comment should override the line continuation | request. This happens in *some* Make implementations. However this is contrary to POSIX. See `Escaped newline in comments' paragraph in the `Limitations of Make' section of the Autoconf manual. -- Alexandre Duret-Lutz
