Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:32:06 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: make 3.75 ported to DJGPP not handling correctly comments
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On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Cesar Scarpini Rabak wrote:

> The comment character is not being handled correctly when it appears in a
> rule of a makefile.
>
> foo: foo.o
> 	$(CC) $(LDOPT) -o  $@ $^ # this comment breaks DJGPP make

This is not a bug in Make.  `#' is a character special to Unix shells, so
Make on Unix calls the shell when it sees such a character, and the shell
also treats this as a comment.  If you set SHELL = bash.exe on MSDOS, it
will also work.