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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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