make aborts with fatal error if a Makefile rule line contains a tab followed by an emtpy shell command line. This is very annoying, because the Makefiles in almost every piece of software on the net contain such lines, notably Makefiles that are generated by the gnu configure utility. The correctness of such lines might be arguable, but since every other version of make simply ignores such lines, I propose the following fix, which will print out a warning about such a line, but will continue to make the target. [send-pr did not like ``Severity: seriuosly annoying'' ;-] How-To-Repeat: Creat a Makefile with only a tabulator in a rule line, then invoke make.
State Changed From-To: open->closed This is already fixed in current according to Ollivier Robert (23 June 95). Since this was a backlogged PR then it entered the gnats database long after the problem was fixed which is why there's no reference to the cvs entry.