Hi Michael,
On 5/10/21 1:39 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
- Specify shebang
Why? It's not quite obvious to me, and the commit message
should really explain...
Hmmm. I have some minor reasons to add it, but not a really good one.
* Some editors don't recognize 'Makefile' as a special name, so the
shebang helps detecting which language the file is using (e.g., for
coloring).
* I tend to subdivide a big Makefile into a small Makefile and many
submakefiles stored in <./libexec/>. Those obviously need different
names, and given that the makefile extension is not very standard (I use
.mk), having a shebang helps knowing what the file is. After that, I
also have it on the main Makefile for consistency. But here we only
have one Makefile, so it doesn apply very much.
And some similar reasons.
Thanks,
Alex
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