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From: kucharsk@uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Stupid Imake question
Summary: Please try to avoid leading whitespace...
Message-ID: <05ob9071rA10107dL5M@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 1 Mar 89 06:21:07 GMT
References: <8902282128.aa17018@SPARK.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: kucharsk@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski)
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In article <8902282128.aa17018@SPARK.BRL.MIL> phil@BRL.MIL (Phil Dykstra) writes:
 >For those of you that still avoid Imakefiles, I point out that you
 >almost ALWAYS have to edit a Makefile to successfully install new
 >software, but almost NEVER have to edit Imakefiles.
 >
 >Try it, you'll like it.

O.K., but I have a suggestion.

When writing Imakefile entries (or Makefile entries, for that matter), STOP
including labels like:

	LABEL = value

and start writing them left-aligned, as in

LABEL=value

The reason for this is that SYSV make throws up if there is a space or tab
before the label.

Now, let me climb atop my soapbox for a moment...

As X11 progresses, it is becoming less a BSD-ish product and more a BSD/SYSV
or other UNIX product.  If I may, could I ask that persons writing code for
posting to comp.sources.x or those writing software to be destined for future
"contrib" files TRY to follow the Makefile rule above?  Thanks in advance.


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