id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	os	architecture	failure	difficulty	testcase	blockedby	blocking	related
3344	request earlier and more perspicuous detection of tab characters in compiler/ghc.cabal.in	nr	simonmar	"It turns out that if there is a tab character in {{{compiler/ghc.cabal.in}}} then the build fails in a way that I at least found hard to diagnose.  Since the configure script builds {{{compiler/ghc.cabal}}} from {{{compiler/ghc.cabal.in}}}, life would be a lot simpler if the build fell over at that point with an error saying that tab characters are forbidden in that file.

Since I believe the tab character is a tool of Satan, I would not dream of suggesting that the configure script run expand(1) over the offending file.
"	feature request	closed	normal		Build System	6.11	fixed			Unknown/Multiple	Unknown/Multiple		Unknown