From:	gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: n
Date:	26 Feb 1997 22:11:41 GMT
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Mr P. Steele (ps13 AT gauss DOT ma DOT ic DOT ac DOT uk) wrote:
: When I use make sometimes it gives something like 

: makefile:5: *** missing seperator.   Stop. 

: Even though the makefile is done correctly is still does this, can anyone tell
:  me why ?

It's difficult to say without seeing the makefile itself, but check that
the leading symbol on your command lines is a tab, not some spaces. Some
editors (e.g. Win95's EDIT) have a non-disablable "feature" which replaces
all the tabs in the file with an appropriate number of spaces... this
makes these editors useless for writing makefiles.

If this isn't the problem, I suggest that you post your makefile, then
people can check its syntax.

-- 
George Foot <gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford.

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