Of Editors and Makefiles (was Re: [CLUE-Tech] LINUX Programming Fundamentals)

[Paul Bille]

Paul > "  The first character on the command line must be a tab. "

Matt > "Are you *serious*? Not just whitespace, but a an actual tab
character? . . ."

Try it yourself.  You'll get the following message:

[paul at ebille]$ make -f make.tabtest clean
make.tabtest:19: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8
spaces?).  Stop.
[paul at ebille]$ 

Paul
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