Subject: Re: Moving some script magic out of bsd.pkg.mk
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/06/2000 10:09:23 
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)