Subject: Re: Moving some script magic out of bsd.pkg.mk
To: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/06/2000 11:48:17
	I'll submit 75% on this :) its a nice solution, but its a little
	non intuitive :)

		David/absolute

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Alan Barrett wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 		We can use comments in the scripts.
> 
> The ":" command can be used as a substitute for comments:
> 
> a.out: foo.c bar.h
> 	a long shell script ; \
> 	with lots of lines ; \
> 	and lots of backslashes ; \
> 	: "think of this as a comment" ; \
> 	more shell commands here ; \
> 	this is the last line
> 
> --apb (Alan Barrett)
>