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--- docs:guide-developer:helloworld:chapter3 [2023/04/11 08:56] – Change the space character in Makefile to tab character because make only accepts tab and errors out if we use space character. astro
+++ docs:guide-developer:helloworld:chapter3 [2023/04/11 09:24] (current) – Add warning about code editors converting tab to spaces in Makefile. Changed the previous sentence as I have changed the Makefile to use hard tabs itself and reader doesn't need to edit it anymore astro
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-Using your favorite text editor, enter the following text as the content of the package manifest. Note that several sections of this file are used by the build system's own GNU make tool, and for this reason, there are **both shorter and longer whitespace indentations** in the file. Shorter ones are simple space characters, while the longer ones should be replaced by hard tabs when editing the file:
+Using your favorite text editor, enter the following text as the content of the package manifest. Note that several sections of this file are used by the build system's own GNU make tool, and for this reason, there are **both shorter and longer whitespace indentations** in the file. Shorter ones are simple space characters, while the longer ones are hard tabs. Note that some code editors may convert the tab character to space characters but [[https://beebo.org/haycorn/2015-04-20_tabs-and-makefiles.html|GNU make does not accept spaces]].
 <code - makefile>
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk