Author: Pete Galati
Date: 00:41:27 08/26/99
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On August 26, 1999 at 03:01:14, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On August 26, 1999 at 02:29:37, Pete Galati wrote: > >>I managed to fix my makefile problem by editing a new one together with Wordpad >>instead of the Dos editor. I don't understand that at all other than it seems to >>handle spaces differently. >> >>This really bothers me because I detest Wordpad and don't want to have to relie >>one it for something else, #@~%*! >> >>I still don't understand what this is trying to tell me: >> >>makefile:33: *** missing separator. Stop. >> >>Separator? What's that, a space? doesn't seem to be a - or a : >> >>Pete > >It's looking for a tab character. Some editors pretend they're sticking in a >tab when they're really adding spaces. > >Dave Thanks Dave, I've had that problem with makefiles before and that's always baffled me. That should be a big help in the future. It wrecked the whole last part of my day trying to fix that problem, I couldn't understand how something I absolutely couldn't see could mess things up so bad. I'm quite sure that whoever invented makefiles had little horns growing out of his head. Pete
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