[R] FIXED: error in make pkg-...

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

Well, would Windows users even know they had such an editor?  It's not
something which has ever come up before, and adding warnings for ever
single problem of any one user's deficient environment would be
overwhelming.

Note that none of the lines the user is expected to edit involve tabs.

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 Drew.Tyre at csiro.au wrote:

> Sorry, spoke too quickly!
>
> The problem was caused by my editing the MkRules file with an editor that
> replaces tabs with spaces. Make evidently requires that all lines start with
> a tab (see http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/faq22_17.html). Perhaps worth
> warning windoze users like myself of such perils in readme.packages or
> somewhere similar!
>
> Now I have a new problem, but it looks fixable.
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> Drew
>
> Drew Tyre
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