URL:
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Summary: UTF-8 with BOM causes a non-descriptive error
Project: make
Submitted by: jgoeders
Submitted on: Tue 22 May 2012 08:51:25 PM GMT
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Enhancement
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Component Version: 3.81
Operating System: POSIX-Based
Fixed Release: None
Triage Status: None
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Details:
When the makefile is encoded as UTF-8 and includes a BOM
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark), make will error.
The error reported is non-descriptive, and makes it seem like a tab-space
issue:
Makefile:1: *** missing separator. Stop.
It would be nice if make simply ignored the BOM, or reported an appropriate
error.
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