Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 16:33:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Shady <rls@hades.id.net> To: hsu@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Jeffrey Hsu) Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: make doesn't like lines with a tab only Message-ID: <199506102033.QAA02732@hades.id.net> In-Reply-To: <199506100016.RAA13474@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> from "Jeffrey Hsu" at Jun 9, 95 05:16:54 pm
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> We know it causes lots of headaches, you should have seen the rash of > commits after the change was made to support this. But you know what, > our Makefiles for all of /usr/src and all of /usr/ports are clean now > > Unfortunately, just about every time I update a port, I have to re-deal > with this incompatibility, since just about every makefile I grab > off the net has supurious white space in them. > > When we adopted the change, I don't think we realized the impact this > change would have at the time. The way I see it, it doesn't hurt > anything to have a leading tab one a line by itself in a makefile, > so we should complain and spew out a warning, but aborting the entire > make because of this is really annoying. Agreed. I definately grab more packages off the net that have these tabs in them, than I do that don't. Wow, that was a mouthful. -- Rob
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