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Date:      Sat, 10 Jun 1995 09:46:50 -0400
From:      "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@ai.mit.edu>
To:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Cc:        ache@astral.msk.su, boing@adnetsol.com, bugs@FreeBSD.org, mal@algonet.se, rls@hades.id.net
Subject:   Re: make doesn't like lines with a tab only
Message-ID:  <199506101346.JAA26814@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199506092328.QAA06737@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> (rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com)

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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.




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