From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jun 9 01:28:14 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA24073 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 01:28:14 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA23995 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 01:28:09 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id BAA05686; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 01:27:55 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506090827.BAA05686@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: make doesn't like lines with a tab only To: mal@algonet.se (Mats Lofkvist) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 01:27:55 -0700 (PDT) Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9506082315.AA04679@sophocles.> from "Mats Lofkvist" at Jun 9, 95 01:15:40 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 607 Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > the following "Makefile" > --SNIP-- > foo: bar > xyzzy -o foo bar > > --SNIP-- > > results in: > "Makefile", line 3: Need an operator > Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue The only bug here is that your makefile is arguably wrong. A tab indicates there is to be a command in this location, you have provided no command. Many other makes ignore this arguably erronous line. I belive POSIX says this shall cause an error. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD