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Subject: Re: Here documents: do they work in FreeBSD make?
From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, Freebsd hackers list <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 20:25:03 -0700
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On Sat, 2015-11-21 at 15:15 -0800, Yuri wrote:
> This syntax doesn't work for me:
>          @cat <<EOF >${MY_DIR}/my-file \
>            #!/bin/sh \
>            \
>            echo 'Hello World!'  \
>            EOF \
> 
> ${MY_DIR}/my-file is created empty.
> 
> Could anybody give me a hint what am I doing wrong?
> 

The \ line-splicing is being done by make, the shell sees one long
string which has a comment delim right after the filename and no here
document at all.  You should be able to see that if you take the @ off
the line (or make -dl).

-- Ian