Re: here docs in makefile

2006-09-28 Thread Philip Guenther
On 9/28/06, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Also mention how one can do shell HERE docs please! I don't think it's possible to embed a here-doc directly in a Makefile. In the line passed to the shell, all the newlines except the very last will be preceded by a backslash, but the he

here docs in makefile

2006-09-28 Thread Dan Jacobson
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 in