Date:	Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:48:20 +0200 (MET DST)
From:	Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To:	grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc:	k3040e4 AT c210 DOT edvz DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Make 3.75 port
In-Reply-To:	<199609270114.VAA01684@delorie.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.NEB.3.95.960927144521.24686F-100000@ananke.amu.edu.pl>
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On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, DJ Delorie wrote:

>
>> > Eli, would it be possible to apply to this port the patch which
>> > allows indented 'Makefile' lines to start with space, no only with
>> > tab? AFAIR, this requires change in only two places in the source.
>>
>> I disagree. That makes GNU makefiles incompatible to all other
>> platforms. Send this suggestion to the FSF if you really think
>> it's that important.
>
>There are two things I'd like to add:
>
>1. For some reason, dos editors are different in that they often replace
>the tab with spaces without the user knowing.  This warrants a
>dos-specific case in make to handle this.
Even Emacs on DOS does that. You have to use M-x tabify to have real tabs (or
I just don't know Emacs good enough to do it other way ;-)))

>
>2. The FSF is likely to accept a dos-specific fix, if properly #ifdef'd
>with __MSDOS__.
I'll do the path. It will be adding ~50 characters ;-)))

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