Re: [PATCH] Makefile: default to -lcurl when no CURL_CONFIG or CURLDIR

[Dave Borowitz <dborowitz@google.com>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
>> $ echo -e 'ifndef FOO\n\t$(error bad things)\nendif\n\nfoo:\n\ttouch
>> foo' > mk1 && make -f mk1 foo
>> mk1:2: *** commands commence before first target.  Stop.
>> $ echo -e 'ifndef FOO\n  $(error bad things)\nendif\n\nfoo:\n\ttouch
>> foo' > mk2 && make -f mk2 foo
>> mk2:2: *** bad things.  Stop.
>
> Gah.  Maybe it should be left-justified to avoid accentally breaking
> it again.

I am ok with that on the basis that it is better to be ugly but
obvious. I suspect if the Makefile were more littered with conditional
$(error)s we would reconsider using tabs as indentation.

> Thanks.
> Jonathan