Re: Minimal example for perl program

[Russ Allbery]

Ole Tange <address@hidden> writes:
> Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> 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.

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>