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From: "Doug Wyatt" <dwyatt@sunflower.com>
To: "Nimoy Pugh" <npugh@ro.com>, <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 00:16:54 -0500
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Subject: Re: GCC 2.95 (makefiles: missing separator)
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From:           	"Nimoy Pugh" <npugh@ro.com>
To:             	<cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject:        	GCC 2.95
Date sent:      	Sun, 17 Oct 1999 23:13:50 -0500

Hi,

By far the most common cause of the "missing separator" error is
leading spaces on makefile command lines.  All shell command lines
must begin with a TAB character.  The only exception I know of is
on continuation lines where the preceding line ends with  '\'. Spaces
may follow the initial TAB and multiple tabs may be used, as far as
I know.

The error message should have given some indication of the line
number where the problem occured.  Check on that line and the
following line for a leading space instead of a TAB.

Sorry. I don't know much about ActiveState.  I haven't used it since I
discovered that it didn't have a proper exec or fork.  The Cygwin Perl5
port is good.

Regards,
Doug Wyatt

> OK I started with B20 and added GCC 2.95, however I have a problem. Neither
> one seemed to like makefiles. I downloaded Activestate perl source and I get
> a missing seperator error when I run make. The same thing has happened
> eveytime I ran make against the any of the perl modules that I downloaded.
> 
> HELP!


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