Hello Andreas, * Andreas wrote on Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 06:42:52PM CET: > fileA.c \ > fileB.c \ > fileC.c [...] > This is not nice so I thought well let's add a backslash after the > last file and add an empty line at the end. Then there's no need to > modify the fileC line and everybody just adds a line to the list. This > can be resolved. But automake doesn't like this at all. Even though it > is clearly visible that this is not wrong it complains. It doesn't > even warn about this it produces an error.
Jan already provided a way around this. Here's why automake warns about it at all: it is not portable to have a backslash followed by a blank line, as some make implementations are rather unpredictable with it: <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Backslash_002dNewline_002dNewline.html> <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Backslash_002dNewline-Comments.html> Hope that helps. Cheers, Ralf
