From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Error using gnu make 3.75
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 22:53:37 -0700
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Charles Krug wrote:

> Trying to use gnu make 3.75 to build a program.  Make returns the
> following message:
> 
>         makefile:11: *** missing separator.  Stop.

This is the most frequently asked question about make.

> calc.exe: calc.cc
>         $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o calc.exe calc.cc #This is line 11

The problem is that there isn't a true tab here, it's just a bunch of
spaces.  make requires an actual tab character at the beginning of a line
for commands for backward compatibility.

> Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong?  I tried using RHIDE's
> editor to edit the file, thinking that dos edit might be giving me
> spaces where I want tabs, but to no avail.  Is there any way to make
> sure that I have tabs and not spaces?  Is there a port of vi to ms-dos?

There are several ports of vi to DOS, though I don't know what they are
offhand (since I don't use vi).  emacs, or many other Windows editors
(Notepad, Wordpad, UltraEdit, CodeWright, etc.) will do just fine.

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