From 862f864809b7f56e2e10744b3933d4259007a876 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 09:08:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] * automake.in (value_to_list): Skip *only* trailing
 backslashes.

---
 ChangeLog   | 4 ++++
 automake.in | 9 +++------
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 5fe07670..8367d957 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+1999-04-07  Alexandre Oliva  <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
+
+	* automake.in (value_to_list): Skip *only* trailing backslashes.
+
 1999-04-07  Pavel Roskin  <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>
 
 	* automake.in (value_to_list): Skip trailing backslashes.
diff --git a/automake.in b/automake.in
index 524847e9..1f319712 100755
--- a/automake.in
+++ b/automake.in
@@ -5550,17 +5550,14 @@ sub value_to_list
     local ($var, $val, $cond) = @_;
     local (@result);
 
+    # Strip backslashes
+    $val =~ s/\\(\n|$)/ /g;
+
     foreach (split (' ', $val))
     {
 	# If a comment seen, just leave.
 	last if /^#/;
 
-	# Strip backslashes
-	s/\\$//;
-
-	# Skip empty lines
-	next if /^$/;
-
 	# Handle variable substitutions.
 	if (/^\$\{([^}]*)\}$/ || /^\$\(([^)]*)\)$/)
 	{
-- 
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