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filwhua

01-25-2005 05:22 AM

please check out my makefile

Code:

CPP = g++

OFLAG = -o

.SUFFIXES = .cpp .o

.cpp.o:

  $(CPP) -c $<



all: \

    example



example: example.o

  $(CPP) $(OFLAG) example example.o

  

example.o: example.cpp

Why always report "makefile:5: *** missing separator. Stop."?

thanks in advance

bigearsbilly

01-25-2005 05:57 AM

REMEMBER:

for the rules, the first character needs to be a <TAB>

target:
<TAB>rule

do a cat -vt makefile to make tabs visible as a ^I and you should see
something like:

Code:

target:

^I rule

You do know that make has all the built-in rules you need
for compiling most languages?

So you don't need to re-state these rules.

In fact, for really simple progs you don't even need a makefile.
If you gzip your make file then type make example
it should do what you want.

filwhua

01-25-2005 09:56 PM

thanks, bigearsbilly

Matir

01-26-2005 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bigearsbilly

You do know that make has all the built-in rules you need
for compiling most languages?

So you don't need to re-state these rules.

In fact, for really simple progs you don't even need a makefile.
If you gzip your make file then type make example
it should do what you want.

Which rules are built in? And what's this with the gzipping, etc.?

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