Re: Run-time dynamic linking in grep

[Jim Meyering]

Reuben Thomas wrote:

> On 30 January 2011 21:38, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Could some tool you use have converted 8 leading spaces to a TAB
>> in that Makefile?  I think emacs' whitespace mode can be configured
>> to do that.
>
> I think we are talking at cross-purposes here, so I'll lay it out step by 
> step.
>
> 1. My Emacs's whitespace mode changed the 8 leading spaces to a tab,
> because I configured it to do that for GNU code (other GNU projects to
> which I've contributed patches have used tabs in source code).
>
> 2. The patch I sent you therefore had this unwanted diff that changed
> a line from 8 leading spaces to a tab. Oops. Sorry.
>
> 3. You cleaned up the patch, which should have included removing this
> unwanted diff, and made a new patch.
>
> 4. You told me to apply your new cleaned-up patch to a clean git checkout.
>
> 5. I applied your new cleaned-up patch to a clean git checkout, and
> discovered that it didn't apply, because your new cleaned-up patch,
> instead of simply eliding my incorrect diff (8 leading spaces to tab),
> instead had the reverse diff (tab to 8 leading spaces).

??
Odd that you saw it that way.

Yours converted spaces-to-TAB:
  http://cache.gmane.org//gmane/comp/gnu/grep/bugs/3455-001.bin

and so did mine (i.e., unchanged from your original):
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.grep.bugs/3435/focus=3456

> But a clean
> git checkout already had 8 leading spaces. So that bit of the patch
> didn't apply.
>
> 6. Much confusion seems to have ensued. Sorry for any part I played in
> its sowing.
>
> I hope all is now clear.

as clear as mud ;-)