In 5.1.1 Splitting Command Lines, at Sometimes you want to split a long line inside of single quotes, but you don't want the backslash-newline to appear in the quoted content. This is often the case when passing scripts to languages such as Perl, where extraneous backslashes inside the script can change its meaning
mention 'using $(\ )is a great way to $(\ )do that that is even backward compatible with older make' Also mention how one can do shell HERE docs please! su proxy<<! bla bla ! how to stuff that into a makefile?! don't say "use su -c". OK, how about wc<<! bla bla ! _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make