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Re: Attempting to unit test
- To: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Attempting to unit test
- From: Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:41:15 -0500 (EST)
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Hello, Tom!
> Do you think it would be better to warn or to simply recognize lines
> like that?
I think it's better to recognize those lines and ignore spaces. Doing
otherwise will make Automake somewhat similar to Python because the
formatting will affect the result (without being considered a bug).
> Making the change is easy. I'm a bit concerned about what it might
> break though. Sometimes people use weird hacks like this to fool
> automake.
I also feel uneasy about it, but this kind of hacks is very dirty. Whoever
uses them should try to find a better way and maybe ask the Automake team
for help.
Regards,
Pavel Roskin