On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 17:01 -0800, David Boyce wrote:
Every non-continued line that starts with a TAB is part of a command
script–and vice versa.”
But it’s not really as simple as that.
It's never been that simple. But trying to explain the real rules make
uses is hard, and taking advantage
For the record, I didn’t ever suggest it was a problem with GNU make,
just that the wording in your “rules” doesn’t map perfectly to
reality. It’s your call, of course, whether that wording needs to be
updated or whether fixing it would muddy the message.
Separately: this situation is is not
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:42:45 -0800
From: Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com
Cc: bug-make bug-make@gnu.org
The BB line is prefixed with a tab and is not continued. With the
comment character in place it provides a ‘recipe commences before
first target. Stop.’ error but with the #
