Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/04/26/22:25:15
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
> > I wonder how many things would break if make automatically collapsed
> > 8 leading spaces into a tab character?
> Too much, it turns out.
>
> The next version of Make will output a more explicit message when 8
> spaces are seen at the beginning of the line, suggesting that perhaps
> the luser meant a TAB. I hope this will serve as a stopgap.
What if it allowed some other visible character to work as well as a TAB,
like ";"? There must be a visible character which would not break anything.
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