%% Dave Hylands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
dh> Since I've already dived in, I created a patch which allows make
dh> to accept leading spaces rather than tabs for the recipies (but
dh> still preserves leading spaces for ifeq and friends).
Unfortunately there are ambiguities to the make language which are
widely used, and where patches like this cause very different behavior
(to the point of breaking makefiles). For example:
foo: bar
THIS = that
FOO = bar
BIZBAZ = boz
will be interpreted quite differently with a patch like this. You can
add your patch to the Savannah page if you like, for others to use. I
do have a change lying around that I made a while ago which allows the
user to set a different character (other than TAB) to be used to
introduce rules; so you could change it to ">" or whatever. The
character still must be the first thing on a line to be recognized as
introducing a command script line. This doesn't do the same thing your
patch does since it still requires a single character to be used (so you
could use SPACE, but not "either SPACE or TAB"), but you can use it to
cause makefiles to be easier to read.
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