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From: sml@luke.UUCP (Steven List @ Uncle Bene's Farm)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Make question
Message-ID: <184@luke.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 16:25:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: luke.184
Posted: Mon Jun  3 16:25:44 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Jun-85 02:40:34 EDT
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Organization: Benetics Corp, Mt.View, CA
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>   I have a make question. I am getting an error from make saying "must
>   be a separator on rules". Any one know what this means?

It means that there must be either a leading tab or semicolon on any
line that is intended to be executed.  For example

	target:  x y
	<tab>cc -O x.c y.c -o z

will work, while
	
	target: x y
	cc -O x.c y.c -o z

won't, and will produce that relatively cryptic error message.  Just
check for action lines (actually shell command lines) that do not begin
with tabs or semicolons.
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