From: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 96 06:45:00 UTC 0000
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Subject: XMODEM File: MAKE.OUT

I feel very stupid, but I have been having this problem with a makefile
I am trying to write that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Whenever I run make on the makefile, it gives the following error,
no matter what arguments I pass:

makefile:10: *** missing separator.  Stop.

I know that the makefile isn't perfected, but I was hoping to get
a more specific error message than this.  I have tried numerous
revisions to get rid of it, but it just keeps popping up.  A search of
the info file for make turns up no reference to the word 'separator'
anywhere.

Here's the makefile.  All I want to know is why that particular error
is happening.
--- cut here ---
CC      = gcc
C_FLAGS = -Wall -g -O

TARGETS := $(wildcard lab*. proj*. lab*.exe proj*.exe)

.PHONY: all
all: $(TARGETS) ;

$(TARGETS): %.c pr_echo.o
        $(CC) $(C_FLAGS) -o $(*).exe $< pr_echo.o -lpc
        @-del $(*).o

pr_echo.o: pr_echo.c
        $(CC) $(C_FLAGS) -c pr_echo.c
--- end ---

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