Mail Archives: djgpp/1995/10/15/09:00:35
peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock) wrote:
>Ben Bacon (70413 DOT 3023 AT compuserve DOT com) wrote:
>: Even after I clean up the directives, however, the makefiles are still
>: bombing with a 'Missing separator' error message referencing the first
>: command line following the first dependency list. I can't figure out
>: what separator MAKE wants to see, or where!
>Is that line indented with a tab or spaces? Many makes require a tab.
The lines are indented with spaces, but I doubt this is the problem --
I was getting the same error, referencing the first directive line,
before I cleaned up the directive syntax. Note that the message
doesn't say a thing about directive syntax, or command syntax, for
that matter -- just "Missing separator"! Very helpful.
I've used a couple of different MAKEs, and while I'm new to GNU (ha
ha), I can't see anything in the makefile syntax that looks like it
should cause a problem. Other makefiles work fine.
Out of curiosity -- are you using GRX? Did you have any trouble
getting it up and running? The first difficulty I encountered was
when the README instructed me to execute 'MAKE INSTALL' from the
LIBGRX root directory. This should execute a (GRX-supplied) batch
file, MAKE.BAT, which in turn runs MAKE.EXE. Unfortunately, the label
'INSTALL' was not defined in MAKE.BAT, so I'm making educated guesses
about what operations it *should* be performing, based on the labels
and instructions it *does* define.
This inconsistency is what makes me wonder whether GRX 1.03.m1 has
been superseded by a later version.
Anyway, thanks for your reply!
Regards,
Ben
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