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From: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
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Subject: Re: make doesn't like lines with a tab only
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   > >All I see here is a bunch of whining.  A simple sed will turn a makefile
   > >with the:
   > ><tab> statement
   > ><tab>
   > 
   > Count number of diffs you need to produce for "ports" collection
   > f.e. It becomes really bothering.
   > 
   > >"error" into a working makefile.  So why move away from a BSD standard?
   > 
   > It isn't BSD standard, it is later NetBSD addition AFAIK.
   > BSD 4.4 and earlier don't have it, POSIX GNU make don't have it too.

   NetBSD implemented this and had the same argument we are having on 
   there lists 4 or 5 months ago.  The outcome of that arguments was the
   code we lifted from them.

No; the outcome was that it was deemed a bug, and we fixed it a few
months ago.