* 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
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
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
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