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Eli Zaretskii |
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Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:04:04 +0200 |
(message from Matt Lavoie on Tue, 6 Apr 2004 07:32:53 -0700)
Subject: Re: gnumake and tabs
Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
References: <address@hidden>
> From: Matt Lavoie <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 07:32:53 -0700
>
> Toward that end:
> (1) Is there a build option for gnumake to make tabs unimportant in
> makefiles?
> (2) Is the parser tightly coupled to the use of tabs?
The special meaning of TABs is IIRC mandated by Posix, so breaking
that would need a very good reason. Using brain-dead editors is IMHO
not one of them.
The real reason behind insisting on TABs is that many Makefiles used
to build programs for X indent variable assignments, like this:
FOO = bar
FOOBAR = barfoo
etc., you get the point. (Actually, I think such Makefiles are
produced by Imake, but I'm not sure.) You can easily see that if Make
treats such lines as commands, it will be a disaster.