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bug #16670: Repeated backslash-escaped newlines not POSIXly replaced

Submitter:  Ray Ingles <sorceror>
Submitted:  Wed 24 May 2006 01:56:09 PM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Item Group:  Bug
Status:  Fixed Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  psmith Open/Closed:  Closed
Component Version:  3.81 Operating System:  POSIX-Based
Fixed Release:  4.0 Triage Status:  None
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Sat 03 Mar 2012 06:53:16 PM UTC, comment #3: 

I modified the .POSIX pseudo target behavior so that if it's set, then we get POSIX-style backslash/newline handling.  The default, though, remains the GNU make method.

If you want to portably get the POSIX behavior without specifying .POSIX, you can do this:


# empty variable
E =
FOO = a      $E\
$E\
b

That is, add empty variable references so that the parser doesn't think that the backslash/newlines are really consecutive, and that the whitespace is not trailing.

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
Group administrator
Tue 02 Jun 2009 02:24:45 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Ugh.  Savannah's comments kind of suck.  I mean, the current behavior gives:

a b


and the POSIXly-correct behavior would give:

a         b


Paul D. Smith <psmith>
Group administrator
Tue 02 Jun 2009 02:23:06 PM UTC, comment #1: 

OK, the fix for this is simple enough.  However, it does cause user-visible changes.  It's not so much the replacing of each backslash/newline/following whitespace with a space that's the issue, it's the fact that TRAILING whitespace on the previous line is no longer condensed.  The current behavior basically condenses ALL whitespace starting with the last non-whitespace character on the previous line and going until the next non-whitespace character (where backslash/newline are considered whitespace) and replaces it with a single space.  So, in the current version of make this:

FOO = a        \
     b

Gives a value of $(FOO) that is "a b".  In the new behavior this would give "a         b", because the trailing whitespace on the previous line is preserved, plus one extra space for the backslash/newline/following whitespace.

Paul D. Smith <psmith>
Group administrator
Wed 24 May 2006 01:56:09 PM UTC, original submission:  

According to POSIX, each escaped newline (newline preceeded by a backslash) is supposed to be replaced with a single space when not in a command. However, sequential escaped newlines are replaced by only a single space. The attached makefile illustrates the problem.

Ray Ingles <sorceror>

 

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file #10043:  makefile added by sorceror (38B - application/octet-stream - Makefile illustrating repeated escaped newlines replaced with single space.)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2012-03-03 psmith StatusNone Fixed
        Assigned toNone psmith
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Fixed ReleaseNone 4.0
    2006-05-24 sorceror Attached File- Added makefile, #10043

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