Re: 3.83 testing

Boris Kolpackov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.devel
Organization Code Synthesis Tools CC
Message-ID <[email protected]>
David Boyce <[email protected]> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Boris Kolpackov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Don't you think that having a way to switch make to the sane newline
> > handling from the POSIXly-correct one would be useful? Something like
> > a special target in the Makefile? I could definitely use such an
> > option.
> 
> Wouldn't that be the already-existing .POSIX: target?

No, .POSIX: switches make to the POSIX mode. What I am looking for is
a way to disable the POSIX newline escaping handling (and only that).
Which, I believe, is a mis-feature.

Boris

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