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
%% Larry Knibb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
lk> I'm trying to 'make test' to check a Perl module before installing
lk> on Win32 and I get
lk> "makefile:770: *** missing separator. Stop."
lk> I had a look around line 770 of the makefile and it looks like this:
lk> 765: pm_to_blib: $
I'm trying to 'make test' to check a Perl module before installing on Win32
and I get
"makefile:770: *** missing separator. Stop."
I had a look around line 770 of the makefile and it looks like this:
765: pm_to_blib: $(TO_INST_PM)
766: @$(PERL) "-I$(INST_ARCHLIB)" "-I$(INST_LIB)" \
767:
