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 really a generic "syntax error" message. It just means that make couldn't parse the line. There are lots of reasons that a line couldn't be parsed, that have nothing to do with a missing TAB. There are also lots of makefiles that indent lines (with spaces) which are not intended to be recipe lines. I don't like the idea of telling the user that every line make can't recognize, that begins with a space, should be changed into a recipe line by adding a TAB. _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
