Re: make file error

[Chad Walstrom]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 06:09:01PM -0700, Claude Marshall wrote:
> What can possibly cause the following error in a make
> file:
> 
> makefile:5: missing separator (did you mean TAB
> instead of 8 spaces?). Stop.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.

It means that your makefile has spaces instead of tabs.  This is a
syntatic "no-no".

# INCORRECT
target:
<spaces>gcc blah.c

# CORRECT
target:
<TAB>gcc blah.c

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Chad Walstrom <address@hidden>                 | a.k.a. ^chewie
http://www.wookimus.net/                            | s.k.a. gunnarr

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