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From: drl@VUSE.VANDERBILT.EDU (David R. Linn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Imake gotcha - escaped colons (correction)
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Date: 10 Feb 90 18:24:26 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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In my previous message, I indicated that the behavior of accepting
macro definitions that have leading tabs was an AT&T(USO?)/BSD difference.

THIS IS NOT SO.

Apparently, the forgiving behavior I attributed to BSD make is actually
only a part of SunOS "SunPro" make. The make man page doesn't really
say much on the issue so both interpretations are equally correct.

Moral: Don't start make macro definitions with a TAB and don't use
unescaped colons in an imake macro definition.

	 David