Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 08:47:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: mal@algonet.se (Mats Lofkvist) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: make doesn't like lines with a tab only Message-ID: <199506090647.IAA02916@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9506082315.AA04679@sophocles.> from "Mats Lofkvist" at Jun 9, 95 01:15:40 am
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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.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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