From: "John Slee" <indigoid AT effect DOT net DOT au>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: -Zwin32 switch unknown!????? HELP!?
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 23:26:57 +1000
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OS-Dev wrote in message <344dcffd DOT 0 AT dingo DOT effect DOT net DOT au>...
>Hi,
hi os-dev!
[snip question i don't have an answer to]
>Also, if I copy the makefile, and modify it, and include rsxntmak.gnu in
the
>same directory (and modify makefile accordingly) I get the following
>message:
>
>makefile:13: *** missing separator.  Stop.
>
>And all I did was copy the makefile, and chane argvenv to hello!
>WTF!?
k.  what you've done (i think) is use a text editor that isn't friendly
towards tabs.  betcha used win95/nt's dos-edit :(
gnu make expects tabs delimiting a make rule and the actions to build that
rule:
foo.o: foo.c foo.h
[tab]gcc -c foo.c
^^^ this must be a tab.  spaces don't cut it here.
so use a tab-friendly editor - a good example is emacs, or if you don't have
the space, download JED, which is a smaller emacs clone that's tab-friendly.
either that, or write a program/script to translate beginning-of-line-spaces
to tabs...

>Any help much appreciated, coz I haven't the space to install a commercial
>win32 compiler, and I need it for CGI.
>
>Pls reply via email.
>
>Thanks,
>-Josh
you're welcome.
>