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I had a makefile which was running under gnumake 3.59.  When I upgraded
to 3.62, it failed.  I tracked the problem to a statement which was
on multiple lines and did a redirection.  A short sample is:

---------------  Makefile ---------------------------
define BINCMD
	ls -l \
	  > out_file
endef

all:
	$(BINCMD)
---------------  End Makefile -----------------------

The 3.59 results are what I expected, a file listing in out_file.  The 3.62
results are an "ls -l" echoed to my screen, then the "> out_file" is
run, apparently as a separate command.  Things work fine if I either don't
split the line, or split with some character other than ">" as the first
char of the continued line.

I assumed that the ">" had been added as some sort of special symbol, but
found no reference to it in the documentation.  Is this a bug, or yet
another RTFM?



Also, what happened to the "-" operator?  I used -rm on a lot of my 
rules to ignore errors if the file didn't exist.  Not really needed
with "rm -f" but I am curious why it went away.  In 3.62, I get
errors from the shell that -rm is not a valid command.  Once again, sorry if
this is documented.  The most recent docs I found are 3.61 Beta and I am
running 3.62, so I may have missed something.


Thanks in advance.
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