That's not the problem with Make though. If it supported both tabs and spaces, everybody would win. As noted somewhere else in this thread, this would essentia

That's not the problem with Make though. If it supported both tabs and spaces, everybody would win. As noted somewhere else in this thread, this would essentially assume you don't have job names beginning with whitespaces, and that's the compatibility bit you're losing, but hey exactly why would you have a job named ' fdsfgs' in your Makefile. Another caveat is that whitespace-Makefiles will be supported by new versions of make only. Well, if you expect your Makefile to be called by a 40 y. o. box running UNIX that can't get a new version you'll have to stick to tabs.