The guy who wrote GNU make is a fascist.

So I'm working on making a common PSA/Project Gamera rpm, modifying the Plesk patches as a base (more on this later), and I hit this:

[root@build qmail-1.03]# make clean

Makefile:1420: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces?). Stop.

You tab-enforcing bastard. I understand the use of a tab in code, I just don't like it. Im a spacer, as opposed to a tabber. Tabbers are heathens. But I digress.

Anyway, this is all started because qmail is a very stripped down MTA, and to get any modern features out of it, you've got to apply all the patches yourself. No problem, Ive been doing this for years now, where my problems come from is that there are so many that you've got to apply (24 as of the time of this writing) that you end up having to modify patches to work with other patches. Thats where my little error comes in above.

Working with qmail is a lot like being a digital anthropologist. You've got to back track all untold revisions of patches, patches on patches, and oh yes, did I mention that FreeBSD* renamed all of them? So not only are you hamstrung by the fact that there are 10-15 different patches to do the same thing in qmail-land, the ones with PSA are named incredibly useful things like “patch-pe”, leaving it up to you to figure out where they came from and what they do.

* PSA's version of qmail is based on the version from FreeBSD ports. Plesk was originally written for freebsd.

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