Re: make error 'missing separator'

Leave it to you to do it the hardest way possible instead of just:
emerge ser2net

Jim G

btw - you ever trip over those routers?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomison, Lee" <ThomisonL@ci.anchorage.ak.us>
Date: Thursday, September 21, 2006 1:09 pm
Subject: make error 'missing separator'

> Hey folks.
> Trying to compile comserv ( http://www.bsdhome.com/comserv/ ) and
> getting a "Makefile: 45 *** missing separator. Stop." Error.
>
> My first guess is that this is one of those diffs between the bsd
> worldand linux world, but who knows?
>
> Googling says put a tab
>
> Choice A: in front of line 45
> Choice B: in front of all lines
> Choice C: in front of all command scripts (wtfo?)
> Choice D: in front of all decision lines.
> Choice E: who the fsck knows?
>
> I've tried the various tab combos, none work, many generate more and
> different and exciting errors.
>
> I have no want, need, desire, or time to learn the in's and out's
> of yet
> another obscure tedious arcane something so I'm going to try for
> choiceF:, and that is pay someone who knows 'make' more than I
> want to know it
> to fix it.
>
> So who knows the in's and out's of makefiles, and how much will you
> charge me to get this working?
>
> I'm using gentoo 2006.1, glibc-2.3.5, gcc-3.4.6. I also tried on
> RHEL4with exactly the same errors, so I suspect the fix will be
> generic. In
> any case I'll post the corrected code back to the gentoo ebuild
> community (the original author appears to be unreachable).
>
> Please reply off list to lee@afabco.com
>
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