From: Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net>
To: Claude Marshall <puckney@yahoo.com>
Cc: gnats-devel@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: make file error
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 05:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020424141651.GA4334@wookimus.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020424010901.89443.qmail@web10008.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 06:09:01PM -0700, Claude Marshall wrote:
> What can possibly cause the following error in a make
> file:
>
> makefile:5: missing separator (did you mean TAB
> instead of 8 spaces?). Stop.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
It means that your makefile has spaces instead of tabs. This is a
syntatic "no-no".
# INCORRECT
target:
<spaces>gcc blah.c
# CORRECT
target:
<TAB>gcc blah.c
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Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie
http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr
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