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Re:I Like Makefiles by instig007 on Saturday September 21, 2024 @03:24AM (#41608188)
> Because it isn't fun checking if the whitespace at the beginning of the line is a tab or spaces. And as said, you must know when to use tabs and/or spaces in rules.

that's why https://editorconfig.org/ exists, so that neither you nor your teammates have to think about these things

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Re:I Like Makefiles by ReleaseCandidat on Saturday September 21, 2024 @04:33AM (#41608498)
> neither you nor your teammates have to think about these things

You're better off using a Makefile linter. But you must know about the problem before being able to solve it. And error messages like

   Makefile:2: *** missing separator.  Stop.
aren't the most helpful.
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Re:I Like Makefiles by oblio on Saturday September 21, 2024 @04:44AM (#41608549)
You'll find the issue within 2 minutes of googling the error message.
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