Makefile – missing separator. Stop.

Filed under linux, make, programming, and quickie.

If you’re getting missing separator errors in your makefile, similar to the following :

Makefile:22: *** missing separator.  Stop.

… make sure you are using real tabs instead of spaces. A global search and replace for four-spaces should fix things up.

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