On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Daniel Schepler wrote: Hi, > Yes, a Makefile with > all: > echo 'foo'\ > 'bar' > > will pass to the shell: > (old make) echo 'foo''bar' > (new make) echo 'foo'\ > 'bar' > > And both will echo a single word. Unfortunatelly that's not true: the sarge version of make prints two words ;( Has anybody any other ideas how to write a Makefile that will work in the same way with both sarge and sid make? Best Regards, robert