Escaped comments cause error

[emmatebibyte]

$ pdpmake
sh: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
pdpmake: nothing to be done for all

The line in question:
SYSEXITS!=printf '\#include <sysexits.h>\n' cpp -M || include/sysexits.h

[rmyorston]

POSIX doesn't allow any exception to the rule that # on a line starts a comment which extends to the next unescaped newline.

pdpmake has extensions such that # doesn't introduce a comment in macro expansions and commands. It doesn't allow # to be escaped with a backslash.

Perhaps it should.

In the meantime the following should work:
SYSEXITS!=printf '\043include <sysexits.h>\n' cpp -M || include/sysexits.h

[rmyorston]

I've added a non-POSIX extension to allow # to be escaped with a preceding backslash.

This is based on my reading of the GNU make documentation, but since I'm not in the habit of escaping #s I may have misinterpreted it.

Please test and let me know if it works for you.

[emmatebibyte]

I was actually hoping to stick to more POSIX-y stuff, I hadn’t realized the escaped hash wasn’t POSIX.