Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!jmsellens From: jmsellens@watmath.UUCP (John M Sellens) Newsgroups: net.bugs Subject: Bug in Make - comments don't work as documented Message-ID: <9218@watmath.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Sep-84 15:27:54 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.9218 Posted: Sat Sep 29 15:27:54 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 01:05:55 EDT Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 24 The way make handles comments and the way the documentation says they are handled are inconsistent. The documentation says that "all characters after a aharp (#) are ignored, as is the sharp itself" ('Make - A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs', S.I. Feldman, page 3, under Description Files and Substitutions). But - try this as a Makefile: # This is a comment all : ; echo hello # This is not a comment # This is a comment echo goodbye # This is not a comment either nothing: # This is a comment Now, I can see the reason for this, and it would otherwise be impossible (as near as I can figure out) to get a '#' on a command line. Perhaps the comment convention should be changed to "lines beginning with a sharp are ignored" and forget trying to allow trailing comments ... John M Sellens UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!jmsellens CSNET: jmsellens%watmath@waterloo.csnet ARPA: jmsellens%watmath%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa