Hi Michael,

On 5/10/21 1:39 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:

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- 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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