From: Philip Boucherat <boucheratp AT teccon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Tips to avoid grief with GNU make
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:19:47 +0000
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In article <_BYp6.1226$hm DOT 6242 AT newsfeed DOT slurp DOT net>, bowman
<bowman AT montana DOT com> writes
>
>Philip Boucherat <boucheratp AT teccon DOT co DOT uk> wrote in message
>news:TfNPfBAN98p6MAb2 AT teccon DOT co DOT uk...
>> 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.
>

Yes - this very thing did keep me occupied for a whole day once. 

Cheers,

Phil
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Philip Boucherat