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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:22:15 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: another rsxntdj problem
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Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> 
> At 06:05 PM 2/22/99 +0200, you wrote:
> >
> >On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, DJ Enormous Beats wrote:
> >
> >> I tried to compile the cplus example that it comes with, but it says there
> >> is an error in the makefile.   It says "makefile:13: *** missing separator.
> >> Stop."
> >
> >This is explained in section 22.16 of the DJGPP FAQ list: you need to
> >make sure that line 13 in the Makefile beginst with a TAB character, not
> >with spaces.
> 
> This was a makefile that *came with the examples*, not one he made
> himself... it's not good for someone to distribute a package with a bogus
> makefile. If Shawn shipped a bad makefile in Allegro 3.2 for example,
> there'd be a million pissed off programmers who happen to have no makefile
> experience spamming up the Allegro list and this one with complaints :-)

It's possible, however, that they edited the Makefile (some Makefiles
are to be edited for local configuration) with an editor that munged it.

To the poster: Did you edit the Makefile at all?  If not, you may wish
to complain to the author of the file.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com