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> Daniel Pfeiffer wrote:
> > [Attachment: git-makepp.patch]
>
> Please read Documentation/SubmittingPatches for next time.
>
> > There are however two things which I can hardly hope to fix:
> [...]
> > PERL_PATH_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(PERL_PATH))#'
> >
> > [...] makepp parses this line just like Emacs, so it doesn't find
> > the comment, adding in the #' at the point of use, which completely
> > screws the sed command.
> [...]
> > # Shell quote;
> > -bindir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(bindir))#'
> > -gitwebdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(gitwebdir))#'
> > -gitwebstaticdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(gitwebdir)/static)#'
> > -SHELL_PATH_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(SHELL_PATH))#'
> > -PERL_PATH_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(PERL_PATH))#'
> > -DESTDIR_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(DESTDIR))#'
> > +Q='
> > +# ' This comment is only to appease IDEs like Emacs.
> > +# The comment is on a new line, else makepp would see it as a quoted hash.
> > +bindir_SQ = $(subst $Q,'\'',$(bindir))
> > +gitwebdir_SQ = $(subst $Q,'\'',$(gitwebdir))
> > +gitwebstaticdir_SQ = $(subst $Q,'\'',$(gitwebdir)/static)
> > +SHELL_PATH_SQ = $(subst $Q,'\'',$(SHELL_PATH))
> > +PERL_PATH_SQ = $(subst $Q,'\'',$(PERL_PATH))
> > +DESTDIR_SQ = $(subst $Q,'\'',$(DESTDIR))
>
> Confusingly, you talk about comments above, but the real issue is that
> your makepp apparently gives the ' special meaning. For once "info
> make" and "man 1p make" on my system agree on the semantics of ': none
> at all. From the latter:
>
> Early proposals stated that an "unquoted" number sign was treated as the
> start of a comment. The make utility does not pay any attention to quotes. A
> number sign starts a comment regardless of its surroundings.
>
> So can you quote chapter and verse to show that there is anything to
> fix?
Nevertheless using
Q='
SQ='\''
bindir_SQ = $(subst $Q,$(SQ),$(bindir))
could make substitution more clear ('make' behavior nothwithstanding).Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>