Re: makefile:8: *** missing separator. Stop.

[aurfalien]

Thanks Paul.

This thing is weird and since I got it off a BSD ports site and am  
trying to run it on my Centos box, thats probably why.

The file I was trying to recompile is mkfile which I've grown fond of.

It exists on BSD derivatives and Irix which I thought was System 5 but  
not Linux.

Anyways, thanks for the reply.

- aurf


On Oct 5, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Paul Smith wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:47 -0700, address@hidden wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > First, not being a stranger to lists, I realize this has been covered
> > here googleplex times.
> >
> > I'm trying to run make on some source I dl'd.
> >
> > I take it the problem lies in my mkfile.c which is pretty long.
> >
> > I also found this error is probably due to spaces used in place of  
> > tabs?
> >
> > Is it a matter of replacing spaces with tabs in this file?
> >
> > And which spaces do I replace as I;m sure I shouldn't replace all of
> > them.
>
> I don't know what "mkfile.c" is but it sure doesn't sound like a
> makefile to me.
>
> The error message you're seeing:
>
>        makefile:8: *** missing separator.  Stop.
>
> tells you the problem is in the file "makefile", line 8.
>
> So, I would look there and replace those spaces with TABs.
>
> Really, you will end up doing this a LOT if your file is corrupted.   
> It
> will almost certainly be faster to try to figure out why/how the file
> got corrupted and fix that, rather than fixing the file up after the
> fact.
>
> If you really don't want to do that then in general it should be safe
> (unless your makefile is REALLY badly written) to replace the first 8
> spaces on any line with a TAB.