From: pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org (Peter J. Farley III)
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Subject: Re: make 3.75 ported to DJGPP not handling correctly comments
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 02:14:00 GMT
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:
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>Summing it up, this is not a make bug, it's a misinterpretation about
>whose duty it is to interpret the '#' here. 

*But* is that the correct definition?  Speaking as a relative outsider
to *nix environments, I must say it would *appear* to be the
responsibility of *make* to strip unquoted comments, since '#' is
*also* the *make* comment character.

Hmm-m-m.  But then, one could not pass an unquoted '#' to *any*
command.  At least a \# would always be required to do so.  Is that
the reason it is a misinterpretation?

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