From:	"bowman" <bowman AT montana DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Tips to avoid grief with GNU make
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Date:	Thu, 8 Mar 2001 19:52:50 -0700
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Philip Boucherat <boucheratp AT teccon DOT co DOT uk> wrote in message
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> Don't leave whitespace or put comments at end of assignments, for
> example this will cause problems such as not being able to find a source
> file :

along the same line, the continuation character '\' must be followed by a
newline.
it is easy to get an invisible whitespace character after it, which will
ruin your day completely.

> Maybe these things are specific to the DJGPP version. Who knows?

nope. make is a wonderful tool, but it does have its moments. it is very
picky about whitespace, which makes debugging it fun. you have to have a
long talk with your editor of choice to make sure it isn't getting cute with
tabs. Python is the only other thing I can
think of offhand that has quite the same sense of humor.

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