title: Are spaces allowed after a slash to continue a line (in GNU make)
body: <p>I'm writing a Python script wherein I'll need to manually parse the <code>target: pre1 pre2 . . .</code> line and I may have targets with multi-line prereqs.</p>
  
  <p>Can a well-written makefile have spaces <em>after</em> the <code>\</code> (and on the same line as the <code>\</code>)?</p>