ignoring the "non-portable whitespace encountered at line " warning

Jake13 · 08-18-2004, 09:20 AM

I just moved up to Linux 9.0, and my C code that I'm trying to port over works properly, but when I do a make clean on my program, I get pages and pages of

"non-portable whitespace encountered at line..."

I know why the warning is being thrown but I just don't have to time to go back through the hundreds of files in my program and change the problem.

Is there a gcc complier option to ignore this warning?? I've spent some time on google but haven't found anything very useful. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

rjlee · 08-18-2004, 09:50 AM

I'm surprised that gcc gets invoked on a make clean; are you sure that's what's generating the warning?

If it's gcc, you can pass an option like -Wno-something or -Wnone. See your gcc manual; I don't seem to have that particular warning.

Code:

man gcc

( By the way, I assume you mean version 9.0 of your distribution, not 9.0 of Linux itself (the kernel), as the latest major version of Linux is still only 2.6 )

Jake13 · 08-18-2004, 10:05 AM

sorry, wasn't paying attention(not enough coffee this morning)....it is with the make clean.

durning the "make clean", I do a "make -s depend"....it's here where it throws those warnings

rjlee · 08-18-2004, 12:34 PM

“Make” itself isn't giving you these warnings; rather it calls another program or script to set up the dependencies. It's that that's generating these warnings.

What do you have in the “depend” section of your Makefile?