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From: jaha AT daimi DOT aau DOT dk (Jan Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: missing separator in MAKEFILE
Date: 9 Jan 1996 14:47:53 GMT
Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University
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Thus spake robhenry AT atl DOT mindspring DOT com (Robert Henry):

>"C. N. Feng" <fengcn AT essex DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:

>>Hi,

>>I download CBGRX103.ZIP recently and followed the instruction to setup.
>>In the 1st_read.me file, it said use "make install" to setup.
>>In fact, I found it shoul be "make default", because there is no "install" label in make.bat.
>>Anyway, this is not the problem.

>>The problem is I got the following messages when useing "make default" to setup :

>>make.exe : nothing to be done for 'drvrs'.
>>make.exe : nothing to be done for 'all'.
>>makefile.gcc:1: *** missing separator. Stop.

>I solved a problem like this recently. I had written my own make file
>using the newer version of "edit" that comes with Win95 and I got the
>same error. I think there must be a tab before the "gcc" in a line
>like the one below. 

>evtst386: evtest.c ../lib/libqueue.a
>	gcc -g -o evtst386 $(GCCOPT) -L../lib evtest.c -lqueue

>It cannot be spaces, and I think thats what the newer editor was
>putting into the file. I switched back to the old version of edit,
>retyped the lines and the problem went away.

>Your make file should not have been tampered with however. So this may
>be of no help.

I have the same problem, but my edit came from win3.11/dos