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Re: make cacking!


Sandeep Neema <sl9y3@cc.usu.edu> writes:

> 
> hi all,
> excuse my ignorance but the make that comes with b18 distribution 
> always cacks on all my makefiles with error:
> 
> Makefile:<lineno>: *** missing seperator. Stop.
> 
> I am lost. please help!!

GNU Make expects the following syntax:

<TARGET>: <DEPENDENCIES>
\t<RULE0>
\t<RULE1>
....

Other makes (like Watcom's wmake (really broken at all)) are
satisfied with whitespace ....

Ciao
		Racke

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