Re: Minimal example for perl program

2010-04-20 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Russ Allbery wrote on Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:23:41AM CEST: > Ole Tange writes: > > Ralf Wildenhues 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

Re: Minimal example for perl program

2010-04-20 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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. I even think it would be a bad idea

Re: Minimal example for perl program

2010-04-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Ole Tange writes: > Ralf Wildenhues 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 or > ? Or would tha

Re: Minimal example for perl program

2010-04-20 Thread Ole Tange
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Ralf Wildenhues 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 or ? Or woul