| # -*-perl-*- | |
| $description = "The following test creates a makefile to test comments\n" | |
| ."and comment continuation to the next line using a \n" | |
| ."backslash within makefiles."; | |
| $details = "To test comments within a makefile, a semi-colon was placed \n" | |
| ."after a comment was started. This should not be reported as\n" | |
| ."an error since it is within a comment. We then continue the \n" | |
| ."comment to the next line using a backslash. To test whether\n" | |
| ."the comment really continued, we place an echo command with some\n" | |
| ."text on the line which should never execute since it should be \n" | |
| ."within a comment\n"; | |
| open(MAKEFILE,"> $makefile"); | |
| # The Contents of the MAKEFILE ... | |
| print MAKEFILE <<\EOF; | |
| EOF | |
| # END of Contents of MAKEFILE | |
| close(MAKEFILE); | |
| run_make_test(q! | |
| # Test comment vs semicolon parsing and line continuation | |
| target: # this ; is just a comment \ | |
| #TAB#@echo This is within a comment.#SPACE# | |
| #TAB#@echo There should be no errors for this makefile. | |
| !, | |
| '', "There should be no errors for this makefile.\n"); | |
| 1; |