Re: How to have real newline in emdeded command lines?

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Jean-Cedric Chappelier <address@hidden> writes:

  jc> What I want to do is to have a sed command emeded in the make
  jc> directives, but this sed command has to have some newlines in there.

  jc> So, is there a way to do this??

No.

This actually turns out to be a long-standing bug in GNU make--or
rather, GNU make is behaving as intended but it turns out that this
behavior is not POSIX-compliant.  The next version of GNU make will
handle this properly.

In the meantime I'm afraid there's nothing you can do except use a
separate script, or else switch to another tool (or version of sed) that
allows you to generate newlines without needing an actual newline
character; in Perl for example you can use the two-character sequence \n
and it is printed as a newline.

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