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Re: PATCH: Re: PATCH: Re: zsh tests (dev-15)

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From: Zefram <zefram@xxxxxxxx>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Re: PATCH: Re: zsh tests (dev-15)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:36:27 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: Zsh workers <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <1000312222135.ZM31017@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Bart Schaefer at "Mar 12, 2000 10:21:35 pm"
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Bart Schaefer wrote:
>I've kept the backslash at the end of every line, but are those really
>necessary?

Yes.

>            I thought m4 would do the right thing with macro arguments
>that span multiple lines.

It does.  m4 treats the backslashes as normal characters; it's a macro
argument that contains several newlines.  That particular argument
ultimately ends up in the configure script, with newlines intact, in a
context where a single line is required by the shell syntax (have a look).
The backslashes are there to make /bin/sh happy about the newlines.

-zefram

References:
- PATCH: Re: PATCH: Re: zsh tests (dev-15)
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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