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diff --git a/t/spy-trailing-backlash.sh b/t/spy-trailing-backlash.sh
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+#! /bin/sh
+# Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# Check that GNU make line-continuation with backslash-newline has the
+# semantic we expect.
+
+am_create_testdir=empty
+. test-init.sh
+
+cat > Makefile << 'END'
+default:
+
+hash = \#
+ok: ; true :--$(hash)--:
+
+var1 = \
+rule1:
+
+rule2: \
+; echo ok > sentinel
+
+# The backslash doesn't cause we to continue to read after
+# the fist blank line.
+rule3: \
+
+var2 = ok
+
+# Ditto.
+var3 = a \
+
+b:
+
+# The backslash will cause the next line to be a comment as well \
+$(error comment not continued)
+
+var4 = foo \
+# not seen
+
+.PHONY: test
+test:
+	test $(var1) = rule1:
+	test $(var2) = ok
+	test $(var3) = a
+	test $(var4) = foo
+	test -z '$(var5)'
+
+var5 = \
+END
+
+$MAKE
+$MAKE ok
+$MAKE ok | grep ':--#--:'
+$MAKE rule1 && exit 1
+$MAKE rule2
+test -f sentinel
+$MAKE rule3
+$MAKE test
+
+: