Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 02:24:07 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Rob Kramer <r DOT kramer AT brighton DOT ac DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Make & gunzip problems..
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On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Rob Kramer wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I'm having a couple of problems which I can't find in the FAQ:
> 
> - Make complains about 'missing separator' when it processes the makefile. 
> Inserting ASCII-9's at places does the trick but is quite inconvenient. I 
> guess this must be a common problem, but I can't find info on it in any 
> FAQ/doc. Any ideas?

missing separator is the tab. you must insert real tabs in the makefile
like so:

makeall:  $(OBJS)
<real-tab>$(CC) ($OBJS)

the problem is that most DOG editors pad the line out with spaces instead
of tabs, there's probably a way for you to tell your editor to use real
tabs instead of spaces.