Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/13/02:29:59
On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, Tor Sjowall wrote:
> I'm sure there is some historic argument for insisting on the tabulator as
> a prefix to make command lines, but I cannot see any problems with
> accepting a space too.
The reason is compatibility with other Unix Make's. If Make accepts a
space, it lets you produce Makefiles that won't be useful with other
versions of Make on Unix. On the other hand, *all* versions of Make,
including those which come with DOS compilers, support a TAB as the first
character.
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