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Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 23:23:35 -0300
From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: Why are tabs required in makefiles?
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
> > I wonder how many things would break if make automatically collapsed
> > 8 leading spaces into a tab character?
> Too much, it turns out.
>
> The next version of Make will output a more explicit message when 8
> spaces are seen at the beginning of the line, suggesting that perhaps
> the luser meant a TAB.  I hope this will serve as a stopgap.

    What if it allowed some other visible character to work as well as a TAB,
like ";"?  There must be a visible character which would not break anything.

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