On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> It can't be all that common, since I've never seen it before :-) > Fair enough - i've seen it a lot, but you've obviously got thousands of times my experience with Make. > Personally I'm very picky about what files are executable and I would > never want a makefile to be executable--so the #! doesn't do much > (besides which it hardcodes the path to make--often I want to use a > different make than the one in /usr/bin). > The intent isn't to make it executable, but to provide a hint to emacs so that it goes into makefile-mode. Just as often i use "#!/do/not/make" (or "#!/do/not/bash" for certain shell scripts), which pleases emacs just as much and keeps the file from being inadvertently executed. > Note there is a slight change in behavior though: in this one if there's > nothing to do make prints "nothing to be done for 'default'" whereas the > "original" prints "nothing to be done for 'all'". > > This may be a distinction without a difference, of course :-). > True on both accounts. :-D -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
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