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

[David Fox <dsfox at cogsci dot ucsd dot edu>]

Geoffrey Noer <noer@cygnus.com> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 09:24:02AM -0500, Alex Rezinsky wrote:
> > >
> > >     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.
> >
> > Try two things:
> > 
> > 1. Make sure you use only TAB symbols and not spaces in action lines.
> 
> Added to the future b20 FAQ.

You can get this error when your makefile gets converted to DOS text.
This seems like the likely problem, since the file works under unix.
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