A Common Error
One of the most common errors that people make is the use of a
series of spaces where a tab should be
used. The correct form is as follows...
<TARGET>: <DEPENDENCY LIST>
[ tab ] <ACTION>
NOTES:
- In many cases cutting and pasting will produce some errors...
- It will usually reproduce this tab as several spaces.
- It may also break lines of text across several lines, depending
on the editor, thus giving many unexpected errors.
- Ex: a long
line of comments may break to the next line, and the make utility will no
longer ignore this line, as it should.
- Many FTP programs will automatically replace this tab
with
spaces as well. So, if you want to FTP a makefile to your GL account you
will probably need to correct this problem once the file is in your
directory.
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Created by: Daniel J.
Hood,
February 2000
http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~cshc/resources/common_make_err.shtml
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