Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" To: Subject: RE: Makefile *** missing separator Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:16:46 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal In-Reply-To: <200307071027.15202.andrew@hsa.com.au> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf > Of Andrew Jacka > I have a question about gnumake under cygwin... > I am getting an error "*** missing separator" compliling using a > home-baked makefile. I believe "separator" in makefiles equals the TAB character. a) Ensure that you type them at apropriate positions ($ info make) b) Ensure that your editor *keeps* them where you typed them (i.e. do not use notepad - or similar tools) /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - Micro Computer Systems, 59~14'N, 17~12'E ~ <=> degree -- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/