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1131.0. "Re: Makefiles for scripts extracting comments" by AOSG::FILTER (Automatic Posting Software - mail to flume::puck) Tue Dec 13 1994 17:05

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From: 	WASTED::jmf "Joshua M. Friedman OSF/UNIX SDE"
To: 	myrdal@DEC:.zko.wasted
CC: 	buildhelp terry zap
Subj: 	Re:  Makefiles for scripts extracting comments

(fyi, I've cc'd buildhelp on this - in case there's any more ideas)


Greg, if you use the SCRIPTS= rule, this by default always strips all
comments (and does it fairly stupidly as you've discovered).  

I think you may be able to reset the SED_OPTIONS variable to cause the
stripping not to happen, as in:

	SED_OPTIONS = ""

or maybe
	SED_OPTIONS = -e ''


If this sort of thing doesn't work, you'll have to change it from 
a SCRIPTS= rule to a DATAFILES= rule (which won't know about .sh suffixes)


If you only want the special sed rule to apply to one command, you
can say   filename_SED_OPTIONS =


See, for example, kernel/conf/Makefile


-josh

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Subject: Makefiles for scripts extracting comments 
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From: "Gregory P. Myrdal" <myrdal>
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Hi,

We have some shell scripts in ASE that would like to retain comments in
for the customer.  Right now it appears that the build Makefile for shell
scripts strips off commented lines.  Can someone tell me how to create a
token that does not match the one that is being removed in the Makefile
(or where ever this is happening)?


Thanks much

-- Greg

PS This also had another bad side effect of pulling out part of a ksh print
statement I had.  I had something like the following:

	print "
The config failed, please do blah, blah, blah and re run the following
commands as root:

	# /var/ase/sbin/ase_fix_config config_file
	# doconfig -c config_file
"

This was a bummer!  I am glad I found it before we shipped!
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