Re: [bug #19015] Initialisation of variable to "ls" and "find" fails with "**missing separator"

[Philip Guenther]

On 2/9/07, anonymous <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> Any attempts to initialize the global variables
> LS = ls
> FIND = find
> failed with error message "*** missing separator. stop". All other commands
> like "grep", "rm", "mkdir" and others work.
> I tried use the declaration with whole path i.e. LS = /bin/ls it did not help
> either.

Please show your makefile.  The problem may actually be with the
line(s) before the LS assignment, or there may be some
control-character in the line that is keeping make from parsing it
correctly.


Philip Guenther