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From: jtc@tessera.UUCP (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Re: Make 3.56: Xenix patches and bug fixes
Message-ID: <82@tessera.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 00:28:16 GMT
References: <m0gE0aU-0006HMC@ateng.ateng.com>
Reply-To: jtc@tessera.UUCP (J.T. Conklin)
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Tesseract Communications, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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In article <m0gE0aU-0006HMC@ateng.ateng.com> chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>
>Features:
>    Support a command prefix (default: "\t" unless "-n" flag specified).
>	Prefix is printed before each command.

This is disgusting!  Can you give me one good reason why GNU make's behavior
should changed to match SCO's broken make?  In my opinion, not printing the
tab is a feature, not a bug.

A word of warning: I'll personally strangle the first person that "fixes" gcc
so it prints the name of the file as it compiles it.

    --jtc

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J.T. Conklin
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