Makefile indentation

[Derek Atkins]

On Thu, June 10, 2010 12:24 pm, Geert Janssens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks to Christian's fine work our c sources and header files are now
> consistently indented.
>
> I am about to make a number of changes in several Makefile.am files and
> notice
> the indentation is a mess. Sometimes tabs are used, sometimes spaces, or
> even
> combinations of both.
>
> What is the preferred way to indent Makefiles ? If there is some consensus
> I
> can fix the ones I am about to change anyway (obviously in a separate
> commit).
>
> Since we've chosen for space indentation in the c files, perhaps it's best
> to
> continue this practise for the makefiles, like 4 spaces per indentation
> level.
>
> Any comments ?

Historically Makefiles *required* tabs.

> Geert

-derek