Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 14:33:29 +0200
From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject: Re: DZCOMM3.0 and the newest ALLEGRO WIP2
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Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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In article <19970916033601 DOT XAA07590 AT ladder01 DOT news DOT aol DOT com> you wrote:
> Well, before someone rewrites it I'll let you know that the "missing
> separator" is a TAB. Yes, those things DOS "Edit" utterly clobbers. 

> Makefiles require tabs beginning lines that are continued \
> <tab>on the next line. 

Sorry, but this is incorrect, AFAIK. The lines in makefiles that
really need TABs as their starting character are the command lines
that are to be executed when something needs to be remade. So:

foo : foo.o bar.o $(OTHEROBJS)
<TAB>gcc -o foo foo.o bar.o $(OTHEROBJS)

Using TAB in continuation lines is just a customary means of indenting
them, not a necessety.

HBB