Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 93 17:09:49 -0500
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To:	gapa83 AT udcf DOT gla DOT ac DOT uk
Cc:	jes AT mbio DOT med DOT upenn DOT edu, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Anyone get make 3.69 to run?

> I don't know the answer to your problem but I did have another problem
> with GNU make. It turned out that make failed with `separation error' if
> I edited my makefiles with an editor that did not use proper tabs. i.e.,
> one that replaced tabs with spaces.

Portable makefiles *must* use tabs.  This is not a bug in make, it is a bug
in the makefiles.

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