On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 14:54 -0700, [email protected] wrote: > Thanks Paul. > > This thing is weird and since I got it off a BSD ports site and am > trying to run it on my Centos box, thats probably why.
Most likely it is written for BSD make and there's some feature of BSD make that makefile uses that GNU make doesn't support. Without seeing the content of line 8 of the makefile, I can't say for sure, but as far as I know BSD make also requires a TAB as the first character. Also, GNU make tries to be helpful and if it detects a missing separator on a line that starts with 8 spaces it will add a little note, like "(did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces?)" Since you didn't see that here, it's most likely something else. Note that the message "missing separator" is GNU make's version of the old BASIC "Syntax Error": it means make couldn't even begin to understand what that line was trying to say. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
