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From: Stephen Vance <vance@deneb.com>
To: Alexei Karpov <Alexei.Karpov@sonycom.com>
Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: *** missing separator.  Stop. error when running make
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 21:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <36265F74.1A649CAD@deneb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3624B79B.E316103@sonycom.com>

Alexei Karpov wrote:

> Hi,
>
>     My makefile has string which contain ( f.e. ) next text :
> echo I do not know why it's does not work.
> When I run make utility I get next error : *** missing separator.  Stop.
>
> Under Unix it works properly, why it does not work
> under CygWin32. May be anybody has ever had the
> same error.
>
> I use :
> GNU Make version 3.75-B19, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
> Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96
>         Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> Thanks a lot,

This comes up frequently.

Either you have spaces instead of a tab before your command lines

OR

Your makefile has carriage returns at the end of some of the lines.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-10-15 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-10-14  7:39 Alexei Karpov
1998-10-15 14:17 ` Alex Rezinsky
1998-10-16 15:27   ` Geoffrey Noer
1998-10-17 10:00     ` David Fox
1998-10-15 21:47 ` Alexander V. Sulima
1998-10-15 21:47 ` Stephen Vance [this message]
1998-10-15  6:45 John Archer
1998-10-16 21:54 TOMMY REYNOLDS

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