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This is good, their builds will fail, notifying them of their misconfiguration in the most obvious way possible. Hopefully they will have to customize the Makefile a little to build on their system, and give it a build before they start programming, so they can correct their editor before they do any damage to the source code.


> This is good, their builds will fail, notifying them of their misconfiguration in the most obvious way possible.

I think it's very funny that you think a build is guaranteed to fail in an obvious way due to a tab vs space problem.


It may not be obvious why it failed, but it should be obvious that it did fail.


If, for example, make fails to update a target that should have been updated, that kind of problem will frequently not be obvious.


Sure, it also won't catch the misconfiguration for those who don't even open the Makefile. It is too optimistic to hope that this venerable piece of software will solve all out misconfiguration woes, but at least it provides a possible red flag sometimes.




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