Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 04:23:29 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: make weirdness Message-ID: <199507131123.EAA05266@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199507130929.LAA09684@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> (message from Christoph Kukulies on Thu, 13 Jul 1995 11:29:12 %2B0200 (MET DST))
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* ....and overlooked that it was not quite correct shell syntax (do should not * be followed by a semicolon). I wonder why the old make let it pass though. Um, I don't think it's make. make is just concatenating the lines at \'s and giving the result to sh. I don't think make does anything about semicolons, sh is perfectly capable of handling them: $ sh -c "echo foo ; echo bar" foo bar So, why didn't the old sh complain? Of course I dunno. Satoshi
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