Apropos Makefile: since time immemorial Makefile uses tabs as part of its syntax. Tabs are important to Makefile (at least in *nix, though later GNU additions make this flexible). 8 or 4 spaces will not do. And so, in Discipulus example:

    return <<'MAKE_README';
postamble ::
    $(PERLRUN) -MPod::Text \
    -e "Pod::Text->new (sentence => 1, width => 78)->parse_from_file( 
+qw( $(TO_INST_PM) Readme) );"
MAKE_README

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In the here-doc, the space before $(PERLRUN) should be a single (real) tab if we want to be portable, I guess.

But in M$-windows system dmake probably made a compromise? Or it's run with special command-line flags? Because I see there are just 4 spaces and not a single tab.

Apropos2: recently there was a discussion about tabs and spaces in code and how editors can transform these. They were not counting die-hard Makefile.

bw, bliako

In reply to Makefile caveat: tabs not spaces by bliako
in thread let Makefile.PL to do the Readme file for me -- new target? by Discipulus

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