Date:	Tue, 18 Nov 1997 11:02:16 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Oon Lin <sci-okl AT jcu DOT edu DOT au>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Can't MAKE
In-Reply-To:	<Pine.OSF.3.96.971118152537.22706C-100000@barra.jcu.edu.au>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.971118110019.5231H-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Oon Lin wrote:

> makefile:2: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> 
> 
> What does that mean ?? It drives me crazy.. I know that make needs real
> tabs in MAKEFILE . Since DOS EDIT doesn't support real tab , I had got VIM
> , which is similiar to VI in UNIX , to write a makefile but the same error
> still appears.

Look at line 2 and try to find that blank.  It must be there, or else 
Make won't have complained.  Use a program that can show you the actual 
ASCII codes of the characters in the file (like `od' from Textutils, or 
the LIST file browser).

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