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- net.v7bugs
- utzoo!henry
- Mon Dec 7 20:14:52 1981
- make(1) vs spaces
- If you have a makefile like this (the tab is written \t for clarity,
- note the space preceding it):
-
- foo: foo.o
- \tcc -n -s ...
-
- make(1) will produce an EXTREMELY cryptic message. It can take a long
- time to track this one down, because the line LOOKS right. Perhaps
- make should consider spaces and tabs equivalent, but I am not sure this
- is a good idea; if it had been done that way from the beginning, ok,
- but as a retrofit I wonder how many makefiles would break. Failing
- this, the error reporting definitely could stand some more smarts.
-