* Alejandro Colomar:
> Could you please try to find out the cause of the actual problem? Maybe
> there's a fix that doesn't involve reverting that patch. Or maybe
> there's a bug in some tool, and we can report it.
NEWS in GNU make explains this:
* WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!
Number signs (#) appearing inside a macro reference or function invocation
no longer introduce comments and should not be escaped with backslashes:
thus a call such as:
foo := $(shell echo '#')
is legal. Previously the number sign needed to be escaped, for example:
foo := $(shell echo '\#')
Now this latter will resolve to "\#". If you want to write makefiles
portable to both versions, assign the number sign to a variable:
H := \#
foo := $(shell echo '$H')
This was claimed to be fixed in 3.81, but wasn't, for some reason.
To detect this change search for 'nocomment' in the .FEATURES variable.
Applying the $H suggestion seems harmless enough, although this make
change seems to be fairly problematic in general.
