Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/04/28/08:50:58
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Endlisnis wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I doubt if you could find such a character; most, if not all, are
> allowed in shell commands. ";", for example, separates multiple
> commands, and the DJGPP port of Make supports it even without a
> Unix-style shell.
Which would seem to make it the perfect synonym for TAB at
the beginning of a line in a makefile.
By the way, I believe that Microsoft make has always accepted
one or more spaces as a synonym for TAB at the beginning
of a line in a makefile.
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