Of Editors and Makefiles (was Re: [CLUE-Tech] LINUX Programming Fundamentals)

[Matt Gushee]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:32:22AM -0600, Paul Bille wrote:
> Paul > "  The first character on the command line must be a tab. "
> 
> Matt > "Are you *serious*? Not just whitespace, but a an actual tab
> character? . . ."
> 
> Try it yourself.  You'll get the following message:
> 
> [paul at ebille]$ make -f make.tabtest clean
> make.tabtest:19: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8
> spaces?).  Stop.

I didn't disbelieve you, but I was wondering what the rational was for
this unpleasant restriction.

P.S. I still say your e-mail client is named Lookout (you should be glad
     I don't go around calling it Outhouse, as some less civilized
     people are wont to do)

-- 
Matt Gushee
Englewood, Colorado, USA
mgushee at havenrock.com
http://www.havenrock.com/