Re: The problem isn't us, it's you.

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From: Yossi Kreinin
Subject: Re: The problem isn't us, it's you.
Date: 13:13 on 25 Feb 2007

Peter da Silva wrote:
> So, while on the subject of meaningless spaces, why exactly IS it that 
> "Make" cares whether you have a space or a tab before a rule?
> 
> 

I guess that's because it has to care about /something/. I mean, it doesn't care 
about all that other stuff. For example, I saw the following snippets in a Makefile:

  ifeq (true,$(RAND_VAR))
    CXXSRCS += randsrc.cpp
  else
    CXXSRCS += randsrc2.cpp
  endifL
  ifeq (true,$(RAND_VAR))
    CXXSRCS += randsrc.cpp
  else
    CXXSRCS += randsrc2.cpp
  endifR

I didn't check exactly what it thought it was doing with "endifL" and "endifR". 
This particular pointless sequence of characters (BTW, note how the if blocks 
are identical except for endifL/endifR) survived approximately a zillion rebuild 
cycles, and make didn't even squeak.

There's stuff above here

Peter da Silva 22:37 on 24 Feb 2007
- Andrew Black 12:44 on 25 Feb 2007
- Yossi Kreinin 13:13 on 25 Feb 2007
  - Peter da Silva 14:08 on 25 Feb 2007
- dom (Dominic Mitchell) 19:36 on 25 Feb 2007
  - Peter da Silva 01:29 on 26 Feb 2007

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