Re: makefile-mode font-lock bugs and annoyances

[Miles Bader]

Daniel Pfeiffer <address@hidden> writes:
> Nothing fancy, just statements like ifdef at bol, or $(patsubst ...) et
> al, would mean gmake, .ifdef at bol bsdmake...

That's not really good enough though.  The presence of a GNU-make
extension _anywhere_ in the file means it's a GNU-makefile.

As GNU-make is upward compatibile with traditional make, this makes the
implementation easy:  just highlight GNU-make extensions by default, no
mode-setting or whatever is necessary.

-Miles
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