Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-Id: <199910180517.BAA13177@dagda.sunflower.com> From: "Doug Wyatt" To: "Nimoy Pugh" , Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 00:16:54 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: GCC 2.95 (makefiles: missing separator) Reply-to: dwyatt AT sunflower DOT com In-reply-to: <004d01bf191f$2f4ab910$aeb8fdcc@mazicom.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.11) From: "Nimoy Pugh" To: 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! -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com