On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 03:25:00PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2022/10/31 16:18, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> > There are 76 or so port Makefiles that have a trailing backslash
> > for line continuation before an empty line, e.g. like this in
> > cmake/Makefile:
> >
> > 77 perl -e 's,/usr/include,${LOCALBASE}/include,' \
> > 78 ${WRKSRC}/Modules/FindDCMTK.cmake \
> > 79
> >
> > Now, this _is_ harmless. The parser will just gobble up the next line
> > and since that one's empty, there's no effect.
> >
> > That said, I think they are accidental leftovers when subsequent
> > content lines were deleted and somebody forgot to remove that
> > trailing backslash on the new last line of an assignment.
> >
> > Should I remove them? Should I not bother?
> > Does anybody actually use this style intentionally?
> >
> >
> > (I have already grepped for instances where the next line is not
> > empty and repaired those that were in error.)
>
> I would be happy to remove them
Same here \
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Antoine
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