On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 08:50:32PM +0200, Stephan Beal wrote:
> Hi, Makers!
>
> i just discovered a Make behaviour which really surprises me. While that
> in itself is nothing new ;), this one certainly violates the principal
> of least astonishment:
>
> When a $(warning) or $(error) is inside a 'define', it is evaluated even
> if it is part of a comment. A demonstration:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/cvs/www.t5$ make --version
> GNU Make 3.81
> ...
>
> Input file to reproduce problem:
> #!/usr/bin/make -f
> ##################################################
> default: all
> define bogo
> # $(warning this should not be evaluated here: (bogo $(1)))
> abc := $(1)
> endef
On the other hand I would have been suprised if make supported having comments
between define/endef.
So in several cases I have used define/endef to avoid the need to quote "#".
Or in other words if "#" suddenly becomes a comment inside define/endef some
Makefile's will break.
Sam
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