Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 17:44:50 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: kolli_s AT hotmail DOT com
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: gnumake problem with ':' (colon)...
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On Wed, 29 Apr 1998 kolli_s AT hotmail DOT com wrote:

> HOME= D:\test
> 
> all: $(HOME)/test
> 
> $(HOME)/test:
> <tab>@echo "test.."
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
>    <tab> is where I insert a <tab>.
> 
>    Make is complaining about "*** missing separator" at Line #5.

I cannot reproduce this problem: Make works for me with the above
Makefile exactly as I'd expect (it prints "test..").

One possibility is that you are using an editor which silently
converts TABs to spaces when it saves the file.  Please make sure the
TAB is retained in the file on disk.

Also, please be sure to use the latest version 3.76.1 of Make
(available as v2gnu/mak3761b.zip from the usual DJGPP sites).