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china_cup

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make error:Makefile missing separator
« on: July 11, 2004, 12:04:20 am »
I.ve run
tmake -o example.pro
tmake -o Makefile example.pro
and have created example.pro and the Makefile file
but when I trid to run make
it couldn't work telling me that :
Makefile:60: *** missing separator . stop.
I just don't why this happened,can anybody help me ? Thanks.  

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make error:Makefile missing separator
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2004, 02:40:43 am »
I found someone said the follows:
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"What does 'missing separator' mean?"
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GNU MAKE produces this error when the first command after your
implicit or explicit rule is delimited with spaces instead of a
tab. (I believe the use of tab as a delimiter is a requirement
of the POSIX spec. Yes, this is stupid.)

You should avoid using DOS EDIT to create or edit makefiles,
as it often expands tabs as spaces.


What can I do to solve this problem,I use tmake and cygwin and the visual c++.