Re: Space after continuation char "\ " causes "commands commence before first target" error

2001-03-08 Thread Stephen McInerney
"Paul D. Smith" wrote: > > sm> make fails ambiguously if the Makefile has non-tab whitespace after a > sm> multiline variable definition that gets expanded to the target of a > sm> rule: > > sm> MULTILINE_TARGET = foo \ > sm> bar \*** any non-tab whitespace her

Re: Space after continuation char "\ " causes "commands commence before first target" error

2001-03-07 Thread Stephen McInerney
Hi Paul, [Yes I was thinking you code warriors could do without an example...] How's this: > sm> make fails ambiguously if the Makefile has non-tab whitespace after a > sm> multiline variable definition that gets expanded to the target of a > sm> rule: > Sorry, I can't parse that (I just

Space after continuation char "\ " causes "commands commence before first target" error

2001-03-07 Thread Stephen McInerney
Hi, make fails ambiguously if the Makefile has non-tab whitespace after a multiline variable definition that gets expanded to the target of a rule: Makefile:12: *** commands commence before first target. Stop. (The error number varies between 12,13,14 or even 28 (tabstop) error) It should p