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Re: *** missing separator. Stop. error when running make


Alexei Karpov wrote:

> Hi,
>
>     My makefile has string which contain ( f.e. ) next text :
> echo I do not know why it's does not work.
> When I run make utility I get next error : *** missing separator.  Stop.
>
> Under Unix it works properly, why it does not work
> under CygWin32. May be anybody has ever had the
> same error.
>
> I use :
> GNU Make version 3.75-B19, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
> Copyright (C) 1988, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96
>         Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> Thanks a lot,

This comes up frequently.

Either you have spaces instead of a tab before your command lines

OR

Your makefile has carriage returns at the end of some of the lines.

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