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Re: GCC 2.95 (makefiles: missing separator)
- To: "Nimoy Pugh" <npugh at ro dot com>, <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: GCC 2.95 (makefiles: missing separator)
- From: "Doug Wyatt" <dwyatt at sunflower dot com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 00:16:54 -0500
- Reply-to: dwyatt at sunflower dot com
From: "Nimoy Pugh" <npugh@ro.com>
To: <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: GCC 2.95
Date sent: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 23:13:50 -0500
Hi,
By far the most common cause of the "missing separator" error is
leading spaces on makefile command lines. All shell command lines
must begin with a TAB character. The only exception I know of is
on continuation lines where the preceding line ends with '\'. Spaces
may follow the initial TAB and multiple tabs may be used, as far as
I know.
The error message should have given some indication of the line
number where the problem occured. Check on that line and the
following line for a leading space instead of a TAB.
Sorry. I don't know much about ActiveState. I haven't used it since I
discovered that it didn't have a proper exec or fork. The Cygwin Perl5
port is good.
Regards,
Doug Wyatt
> OK I started with B20 and added GCC 2.95, however I have a problem. Neither
> one seemed to like makefiles. I downloaded Activestate perl source and I get
> a missing seperator error when I run make. The same thing has happened
> eveytime I ran make against the any of the perl modules that I downloaded.
>
> HELP!
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