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From: dsfox AT cogsci DOT ucsd DOT edu (David Fox)
Subject: Re: *** missing separator. Stop. error when running make
17 Oct 1998 20:27:02 -0700 :
Message-ID: <lud87r5jgj.fsf.cygnus.gnu-win32@pipeline.ucsd.edu>
References: <3624B79B DOT E316103 AT sonycom DOT com>
To: Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com>
Cc: Alex Rezinsky <alexr AT aurora DOT sps DOT mot DOT com>,
Alexei Karpov <Alexei DOT Karpov AT sonycom DOT com>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Geoffrey Noer <noer AT cygnus DOT com> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 09:24:02AM -0500, Alex Rezinsky wrote:
> > >
> > >     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.
> >
> > Try two things:
> > 
> > 1. Make sure you use only TAB symbols and not spaces in action lines.
> 
> Added to the future b20 FAQ.

You can get this error when your makefile gets converted to DOS text.
This seems like the likely problem, since the file works under unix.
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