On Sat, 2016-11-19 at 18:49 +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
> With this change, users who have their editor misconfigured when writing
> Makefiles without using 8 spaces for one TAB character will also get a
> friendly error message.
I'm not a fan of this change.
Make's "missing separator" is re
Michael Stapelberg's patch:
diff --git a/read.c b/read.c
index b870aa8..3c67e55 100644
--- a/read.c
+++ b/read.c
@@ -1122,6 +1122,8 @@ eval (struct ebuffer *ebuf, int set_default)
one of the most common bugs found in makefiles... */
if (cmd_prefix == '\t' && strneq (
With this change, users who have their editor misconfigured when writing
Makefiles without using 8 spaces for one TAB character will also get a
friendly error message.
I used the following 3 test cases:
echo -e "foo:\n echo bar" > broken.make
echo -e "foo:\necho bar" > broken.8.make
With this change, users who have their editor misconfigured when writing
Makefiles without using 8 spaces for one TAB character will also get a
friendly error message.
I used the following 3 test cases:
echo -e "foo:\n echo bar" > broken.make
echo -e "foo:\necho bar" > broken.8.make
