From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jun 8 23:52:58 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA17293 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 23:52:58 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA17283 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 1995 23:52:52 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA23197; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 08:52:48 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA19483; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 08:52:47 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA02916; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 08:47:29 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506090647.IAA02916@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: make doesn't like lines with a tab only To: mal@algonet.se (Mats Lofkvist) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 08:47:28 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9506082315.AA04679@sophocles.> from "Mats Lofkvist" at Jun 9, 95 01:15:40 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 656 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mats Lofkvist wrote: > > > the following "Makefile" > --SNIP-- > foo: bar > xyzzy -o foo bar > > --SNIP-- > > results in: > "Makefile", line 3: Need an operator > Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue What semantics would you imply with this Makefile? Since a leading TAB is taken to be as a line with shell commands, but there's no command at all, i wouldn't care to accept this as a "bug"... (I.e., it doesn't bother me too much which error message i'm getting for a bogus Makefile.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)