Re: [GIT PULL] x86/build change for v3.6

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/25/2012 01:15 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> This is not as expected....
> In this silly example it is maybe obvious but I have lost hours tracking
> down bugs due to this.
> You add a new target and suddenly someting unrelated breaks.
>
> What happens is that make consider the assignment a command due to the leading
> tab - and because is follows a target (or other commands).
>
> I hope this makes it clear why many makefiles in the kernel uses tabs for indent.

This is also a good reason why not to indent assignments in Makefiles by 
full tab stops.  A smaller indent can't be scrambled this way.

	-hpa


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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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