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Re: Minimal example for perl program
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: Minimal example for perl program |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:31:26 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-10-28) |
* Russ Allbery wrote on Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:23:41AM CEST:
> Ole Tange writes:
> > Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
> >> I wish automake could warn about leading whitespace damage;
> >> unfortunately, the parser would need to be quite a bit smarter
> >> for such a warning to work reliably.
>
> > Could it be extended so you could start the line with either <TAB> or
> > <DOT><WHITESPACE>? Or would that break too much backwards
> > compatability?
>
> It breaks the basic assumption that Makefile.am is basically a makefile.
> I suppose that Automake could try to transform the whitespace as part of
> its processing, but I'm not sure that's a good idea.
No, I don't like that either.
However, there is a POSIX make-blessed alternative in that you can use:
target... : prereq... ; command...
instead of:
target... : prereq...<newline>
<tab>command...
throughout; that is portable to all make implementations I know of.
I'm not aware of automake bugs with the former spelling, but it's not
used very much I guess; if you encounter one, please report it.
Thanks,
Ralf
- Re: Minimal example for perl program, (continued)
- Re: Minimal example for perl program, Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/04/19
- Re: Minimal example for perl program, Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/04/19
- Re: Minimal example for perl program, Russ Allbery, 2010/04/19
- Re: Minimal example for perl program, Ralf Wildenhues, 2010/04/19
- Re: Minimal example for perl program, Russ Allbery, 2010/04/19
- Re: Minimal example for perl program, Ole Tange, 2010/04/20
- Re: Minimal example for perl program, Russ Allbery, 2010/04/20
- Re: Minimal example for perl program, Steffen Dettmer, 2010/04/20
- Re: Minimal example for perl program,
Ralf Wildenhues <=