Hi, Since I've already dived in, I created a patch which allows make to accept leading spaces rather than tabs for the recipies (but still preserves leading spaces for ifeq and friends).
I was spending too much time debugging problems caused by spaces being changed to tabs, and since I created the patch, I never hear about these problems anymore :) I think that other makes on Windows allow leading spaces and lots of the people I work with had experience with these makes, blah blah blah. If anybody is interested, the patch (for version 3-80 of make) is over here: http://www.DaveHylands.com/Software/make/ I don't know if the make maintainers would be interested in such a patch or not, but I figured I can can at least make them aware of it :) Someone on another list said: I've also thought that was the stupidest thing, even in Unix, that the type of *white-space* is semantically different. It's as bad as the computer language "Whitespace": <http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/index.php>. But that's digressing..... which I got a good chuckle out of (the Whitespace programming language, not the semantic differences part). -- Dave Hylands Vancouver, BC, Canada http://www.DaveHylands.com/ _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
