[bug #42599] .RECIPEPREFIX should not have to be at beginning of line

[Dave Yost]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42599>

                 Summary: .RECIPEPREFIX should not have to be at beginning of
line
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: yost
            Submitted on: Sun 22 Jun 2014 01:40:54 PM PDT
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Enhancement
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: 4.0
        Operating System: Any
           Fixed Release: None
           Triage Status: None

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Details:

.RECIPEPREFIX is a wonderful thing, long overdue. Thanks!

Make should allow the .RECIPEPREFIX character (if it is not a tab) to be
preceded by whitespace.


ifneq 'simple' '$(flavor .RECIPEPREFIX)'
  $(error You must use gnu make 4.0 or later)
endif
# This file does not use tabs.
.RECIPEPREFIX := |

ifeq '' ''
  
  all :
  |   @echo works

endif


gets this error:


0 212 Z% make
Makefile:10: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces?). 
Stop.
1 213 Z% 


Also it seems to me that this error message needs to be updated for the
situation where .RECIPEPREFIX is set to something other than TAB.




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