From: "bowman" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: Subject: Re: Tips to avoid grief with GNU make Lines: 22 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Message-ID: <_BYp6.1226$hm.6242@newsfeed.slurp.net> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:52:50 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.4.224.187 X-Trace: newsfeed.slurp.net 984110586 208.4.224.187 (Thu, 08 Mar 2001 22:03:06 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 22:03:06 CDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Philip Boucherat wrote in message news:TfNPfBAN98p6MAb2 AT teccon DOT co DOT uk... > Don't leave whitespace or put comments at end of assignments, for > example this will cause problems such as not being able to find a source > file : along the same line, the continuation character '\' must be followed by a newline. it is easy to get an invisible whitespace character after it, which will ruin your day completely. > Maybe these things are specific to the DJGPP version. Who knows? nope. make is a wonderful tool, but it does have its moments. it is very picky about whitespace, which makes debugging it fun. you have to have a long talk with your editor of choice to make sure it isn't getting cute with tabs. Python is the only other thing I can think of offhand that has quite the same sense of humor.