From: myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Make 3.77 uploaded
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Date: 27 Aug 1998 23:07:42 GMT
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In article <35e36725 DOT 32535918 AT news DOT pathcom DOT com>, oliver AT jesus DOT hv (Oliver
Richman) writes:

>Yes, but the problem is a problem because make *always* reports it as
>an error when there are spaces in front of a command when a tab should
>be there. It's always the same error and it is a pain to fix.

If you insist on using an editor that can't make real tabs, 
you can do this instead of trying to change make.

This is an awk script that will change lines that begin with 
four or more spaces to lines that begin with a real tab 
character.  Its first line is the she-bang ("#!").

#! $DJGPP/bin/awk

/^    /{ sub(/^ +/, "\t", $0) }
{print}
# end of script

You run it like this on the bad makefile to generate a 
good one.  You can confirm the presence of real tabs by 
using sed to list the characters:

[W95]:sh3 makefix$ awk -f makefix.awk badmake >goodmake
[W95]:sh3 makefix$ awk -f makefix.awk badmake | sed -n l
foo: bar
\tcommand -d q p file.foo
[W95]:sh3 makefix$


--Ed (Myknees)