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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: help with make
Date: 5 Dec 1994 22:25:17 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana
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Message-ID: <3c040d$53h@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <3bqsrv$7u2@martha.utk.edu>
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In article <3bqsrv$7u2@martha.utk.edu>,
phrank the punk <frank@martha.utcc.utk.edu> wrote:
>hi,
>
>i have a encountered a strange problem on my FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 box:
>
>make (and also gnu-make) woes when it encounters a line that starts with
>a dot ('.' like '.include <bsd.prog.mk>') ??? i get something like:
>Makefile:<line#>: *** missing separator. Stop.
>;-( it used to work, and i have no clue what i've changed to cause this ?
>any ideas ?
I suspect you over-wrote BSD-make with GNU-make. GNU-make doesn't support
this, but BSD make does.
Nate
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