Reginald Beardsley via oi-dev <[email protected]> wrote:
> Whitespace in Makefiles has been a mess from the start. The story is that
> Feldman realized that making distinctions between types of white space was a
> bad idea. But he had a dozen users and didn't want to break their Makefiles.
> And the Bourne shell is not much better on that score. What you can't see
> can have devastating consequences,
Looks like you missunderstood the concept.
Some people have been unhappy with the concept that action lines need to start
with an intial TAB.
White space in variables is well defined:
- initial whitespace is skipped
- trailing whitespace is removed by SunPro Make but kept by gmake and
smake, so be careful with # comment at the end of a variable
assignement line.
- white space in the middle is required by POSIX to be kept intact
but gmake e.g. shrinks multiple white space to a single white space
The reported problem does not seem to be related to these white space problems.
Jörg
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