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From: amason AT cs DOT uct DOT ac DOT za (Ashton Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Get ready to through the book at me :) ....
Date: 24 Apr 1996 10:33:09 GMT
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In <317B9388 DOT 5D7B6421 AT alcyone DOT com> Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com> writes:

>root wrote:

>> # gnu makefile
>> all : hello.exe
>> 
>> hello.exe : hello.cc
>>         gcc -O2 hello.cc -o hello.exe
>  ^^^^^^^^

>Are you sure that this is a tab?  In makefiles, you can't use any old 
>whitespace as a separator; it must be a tab.

Also, look for extra whitespace at the end of the first line 
'hello.exe : hello.cc'. I've seen that cause problems as well, 
I think.

Ash
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