From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jun 9 18:19:23 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA16732 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 18:19:23 -0700 Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [144.206.136.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA16711 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 18:19:18 -0700 Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA13730 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Sat, 10 Jun 1995 05:15:34 +0400 Received: by sequent.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Sat, 10 Jun 95 05:15:34 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by astral.msk.su (8.6.8/8.6.6) id FAA00854; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 05:13:27 +0400 Resent-To: bugs@FreeBSD.org, "Rodney W. Grimes" Resent-Message-Id: Resent-Organization: Olahm Ha-Yetzirah Resent-Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 05:13:26 +0400 (MSD) Resent-X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.37 FreeBSD] Resent-From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA?= =?KOI8-R?Q?=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= aka "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" Resent-Return-Receipt-To: ache@astral.msk.su Resent-X-Class: Fast Resent-Precedence: special-delivery Received: from kiae.UUCP (ache@localhost) by astral.msk.su (8.6.8/8.6.6) with UUCP id FAA00820 for ache; Sat, 10 Jun 1995 05:11:11 +0400 Received: from freefall.cdrom.com by sequent.kiae.su with SMTP id AA12551 (5.65.kiae-2 for ); Sat, 10 Jun 1995 05:07:02 +0400 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA11342 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 17:16:56 -0700 Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA11336 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 17:16:55 -0700 Received: (hsu@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.11/PHILMAIL-1.11) id RAA13474 for ports@freebsd.org; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 17:16:54 -0700 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 17:16:54 -0700 From: Jeffrey Hsu Message-Id: <199506100016.RAA13474@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: make doesn't like lines with a tab only Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We know it causes lots of headaches, you should have seen the rash of commits after the change was made to support this. But you know what, our Makefiles for all of /usr/src and all of /usr/ports are clean now Unfortunately, just about every time I update a port, I have to re-deal with this incompatibility, since just about every makefile I grab off the net has supurious white space in them. When we adopted the change, I don't think we realized the impact this change would have at the time. The way I see it, it doesn't hurt anything to have a leading tab one a line by itself in a makefile, so we should complain and spew out a warning, but aborting the entire make because of this is really annoying.