In the manual it says:
"If the @code{.POSIX} special target is defined then backslash/newline
handling is modified slightly to conform to POSIX.2: first, whitespace
preceding a backslash is not removed and second, consecutive
backslash/newlines are not condensed."
but I cannot reproduce it with this example makefile:
.POSIX:
var = one \
two \
three \
four
define var1
a \
b \
c
endef
all:
echo ${var}
echo ${var1}
Output:
$ make
echo one two three four
one two three four
echo a b c
a b c
If I read the manual correctly whitespaces between all words should be
preserved in expansion of var too but they are not. This is how bmake
behaves for example, output of `echo ${var}' would be:
echo one two three four
one two three four
For the record, I saw this
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?16670. Is my understanding
correct?
BTW, in make/make/src/misc.c it says:
In POSIX, each backslash/newline and is replaced by a space. */
I believe some words are missing in this sentence?
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Arkadiusz Drabczyk <arkadi...@drabczyk.org>
