[bug #36529] UTF-8 with BOM causes a non-descriptive error

[Jeffrey Goeders]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36529>

                 Summary: UTF-8 with BOM causes a non-descriptive error
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: jgoeders
            Submitted on: Tue 22 May 2012 08:51:25 PM GMT
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Enhancement
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: 3.81
        Operating System: POSIX-Based
           Fixed Release: None
           Triage Status: None

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Details:

When the makefile is encoded as UTF-8 and includes a BOM
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark), make will error.

The error reported is non-descriptive, and makes it seem like a tab-space
issue: 
Makefile:1: *** missing separator.  Stop.

It would be nice if make simply ignored the BOM, or reported an appropriate
error.




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