From f7ef0bbdb20cfc4c21449b97bcea5b64a2785f7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefano Lattarini Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 12:16:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [ng] cosmetics: fix an imprecise comment * lib/am/header-vars.am (am__empty): About this. Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini --- lib/am/header-vars.am | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/am/header-vars.am b/lib/am/header-vars.am index ad966918e..c6ad4d355 100644 --- a/lib/am/header-vars.am +++ b/lib/am/header-vars.am @@ -143,8 +143,9 @@ am__make_dryrun := \ $(findstring n,$(am__v))))), \ true, false)) -# An empty strings. It only serves to make the code readable -# in some places. +# An empty string. It can be very useful to "fool" the make parser w.r.t. +# whitespace handling, and allow us to obtain tricky semantics. See the +# definition of $(am__newline) below for a significant example. am__empty := am__strip_firstword = $(wordlist 2,$(words $(1)),$(1)) -- 2.47.2