Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 20:42:20 -0400 From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com> To: uriah.heep.sax.de!joerg_wunsch@dg-rtp.dg.com, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make doesn't like lines with a tab only Message-ID: <199507180042.UAA03372@lakes>
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joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de wrote: > As Mats Lofkvist wrote: > > > > > > the following "Makefile" > > --SNIP-- > > foo: bar > > <TAB>xyzzy -o foo bar > > <TAB> > > --SNIP-- > > > > results in: > > "Makefile", line 3: Need an operator > > Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue > > What semantics would you imply with this Makefile? Since a leading > TAB is taken to be as a line with shell commands, but there's no > command at all, i wouldn't care to accept this as a "bug"... > > (I.e., it doesn't bother me too much which error message i'm getting > for a bogus Makefile.) > > -- I didn't say anything when this was discussed, because I agreed with Joerg's approach... However, I keep running into "standard/portable" makefiles that insist on doing this. After I ran into the fifth such makefile - I've changed my mind on this - and would now argue that we need to re-instate the previous behavior, just for ease of use. - Dave Rivers -
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