No discussion of make(1) would be complete without an acknowledgement that it includes one of the worst design botches in the history of Unix. The use of tab characters as a required leader for command lines associated with a production means that the interpretation of a makefile can change drastically on the basis of invisible differences in whitespace.
[^] # Re: Ben voyons
Posté par delio . En réponse à la dépêche GNU Make 4.0 extensible. Évalué à 10.
Eric S. Raymond, "The Art of Unix Programming"
http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch15s04.html