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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