From: Shawn Hargreaves Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DZCOMM3.0 and the newest ALLEGRO WIP2 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 19:23:40 +0100 Organization: None Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <341DD24B DOT 55E7 AT why DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: talula.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 21 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk >Hi. I just now got the chance to play with DZCOMM3.0. When I extracted >DZCOMM, I noticed that the makefile is for the older version of >Allegro, to be expected, I guess. It would be better if DZCOMM didn't replace the standard makefile: that is bound to cause problems whenever Allegro changes. Is there any good reason why it cannot have a seperate makefile of its own, and compile next to, rather than on top of, the Allegro sources? That would make it a great deal more futureproof... >made since to me, I guess. So I tried to run make for the new makefile >and it gave me a "missing seperator" error thingy-ma-jig. I tried to You need to make sure your makefile contains a proper tab character, not just eight spaces (some braindead text editors don't understand about tabs :-) -- Shawn Hargreaves - shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk - http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/ Beauty is a French phonetic corruption of a short cloth neck ornament.