Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:33:19 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Vikas Yadav <amitvikas AT yahoo DOT com>
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On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Vikas Yadav wrote:

> A simple makefile like this:
> all: snake.exe
> 
> snake.o: main.cpp cstring.h command.h utils.h
>          gcc -Wall -c main.cpp
> snake.exe: snake.o
>          gcc -o snake.exe snake.exe -lz -lalleg -lini
> 
> and make.exe keeps on syaing
> makefile:4: ***reuired seperater

I'm guessing that the error message said this:

	makefile:4:***missing separator. Stop.

(Please always cite the _exact_ text of the messages.)

This usually happens because you use spaces instead of TABs in the rule 
commands.  GNU Make requires a TAB as the first character in the rule 
commands.