"Shao-Ce SUN via GitGitGadget" [off-list ref] writes:
- $ make prefix=/usr all doc info ;# as yourself
- # make prefix=/usr install install-doc install-html install-info ;# as root
+ $ make prefix=/usr all doc info ; $ as yourself
This and all the changes in the patch is wrong, but it is not
entirely your fault. You need to know the shell syntax.
The semicolon in ";#" is an end of one command (i.e. "make"), and
the hash is "start of comment--ignore the rest of the line.
If you replace # with $, then "$ as yourself" would be fed to the
shell because $ is not a comment introducer. The command line no
longer can be copied and pasted, starting from "make" to the end of
the line.
Thanks.