Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/11/18/04:04:03
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Oon Lin wrote:
> makefile:2: *** missing separator. Stop.
>
>
> What does that mean ?? It drives me crazy.. I know that make needs real
> tabs in MAKEFILE . Since DOS EDIT doesn't support real tab , I had got VIM
> , which is similiar to VI in UNIX , to write a makefile but the same error
> still appears.
Look at line 2 and try to find that blank. It must be there, or else
Make won't have complained. Use a program that can show you the actual
ASCII codes of the characters in the file (like `od' from Textutils, or
the LIST file browser).
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