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Re: Why using TAB instead of space in GNU Make?


From: Renato Golin
Subject: Re: Why using TAB instead of space in GNU Make?
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:50:46 +0100
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sunny wrote:
Renato Golin wrote:
sunny wrote:
I got the answer.........we use tab before commands.....
because by tab only make is able to separate a command from normal
line.
>>
What's a "normal" line?
>
A line which is not a command...
like target: dependency

Never thought of that as "normal", just as "rules", maybe because I've never considered commands (or variables, conditionals, etc) as "abnormal".

Anyway, it's just a point of view... ;)

--renato


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