Ole Tange <o...@tange.dk> writes: > Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote:
>> I wish automake could warn about leading whitespace damage; >> unfortunately, the parser would need to be quite a bit smarter >> for such a warning to work reliably. > Could it be extended so you could start the line with either <TAB> or > <DOT><WHITESPACE>? Or would that break too much backwards > compatability? It breaks the basic assumption that Makefile.am is basically a makefile. I suppose that Automake could try to transform the whitespace as part of its processing, but I'm not sure that's a good idea. -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
