Date: Fri, 10 Dec 93 17:09:49 -0500
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: gapa83 AT udcf DOT gla DOT ac DOT uk
Cc: jes AT mbio DOT med DOT upenn DOT edu, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Anyone get make 3.69 to run?


> I don't know the answer to your problem but I did have another problem
> with GNU make. It turned out that make failed with `separation error' if
> I edited my makefiles with an editor that did not use proper tabs. i.e.,
> one that replaced tabs with spaces.

Portable makefiles *must* use tabs.  This is not a bug in make, it is a bug
in the makefiles.