Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 23:24:43 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Posix [Was: Re: make doesn't like lines with a tab only] Message-ID: <199506111324.XAA10871@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>But make it issuing a warning anyway. Posix neither clearly allows it Don't. >nor does it clearly forbide it (it's only saying about "<tab>command", >and there's never a definition saying the empty string were a valid >command or not; at least, it's a very useless one). The warning will It's up to the shell to decide if an empty command is valid. If `make' decides (as an optimization to avoid execing the shell to do nothing) then it must get it right. Bruce
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