From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Bad makefile
Date:	Sat, 09 May 1998 14:16:13 -0400
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Alex Weekley wrote:
> 
> Can anyone please tell me what is wrong with this makefile? One minute
> it was working fine and now I always get missing separator. I've even
> tried writing a new one but the same thing always happens. Arrgh! I hate
> make!

That always happens when your editor uses spaces instead of tabs on
lines containing commands.  GNU Make requires that commands be prefixed
with real tabs.  Depending on the editor you use, there is usually a way
to make it use real tabs instead of spaces:  in DOS Edit, the
Ctrl-P,Ctrl-I combination has been known to work; Win95 Notepad uses
real tabs; GNU Emacs uses tabs in Makefile mode, and RHIDE can be set to
use real tabs.

Make is an extremely powerful and versatile tool.  It just takes a
little time to get used to it.  :-)

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