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> >
> The <tab> syntax is make-specific. It is very very supid. The GNU make
> only adds some types of rules to ``standard'' make (e.g., some kind of
> `wildcards', more comfortable ways to handle filenames). Nevertheless
> the <tab> syntax will survive everything.

Borland make used to be less restrictive, I hate tabs too.
>
> 				D.A.
>
> P.S.: Some `too-inteligent' text editors convert your tabs into spaces
> (and the user doesn't know that option is set). If your Makefile doesn't
> want to work and there is no reason why, check this.
> It happened to me...

There is only one stupid way to solve this: use vi. It is great, and greatly
impossible (I still hate it, and love it).

Gilbert.