Hi , I wrote one make to compile simple hello-1.c file given in tldp linux kernal document. but when iam trying to compile it is giving an error message . program : #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> int init_module(void) { printk("<1> Hello World 1. \n"); // a non zero return means loaded failed ; module can't be loaded return 0; } void cleanup_module(void) { printk(KERN_ALERT "Goodbye world 1, \n"); } ------------------------------------------------------------- make file: TARGET := hello−1 WARN := −W −Wall −Wstrict−prototypes −Wmissing−prototypes INCLUDE := −isystem /lib/modules/`uname −r`/build/include CFLAGS := −O2 −DMODULE −D__KERNEL__ ${WARN} ${INCLUDE} CC := gcc−3.0 ${TARGET}.o: ${TARGET}.c .PHONY: clean clean: rm −rf ${TARGET}.o ----------------------------------- error displayed make Makefile:9: *** missing separator. Stop. [gowri@localhost kernel_pract]$ make hello-1 Makefile:9: *** missing separator. Stop. ------------------------------------------- contents in the directory drwxrwxr-x 2 gowri gowri 4096 Feb 20 20:08 . drwxr-xr-x 5 gowri gowri 4096 Feb 13 14:29 .. -rwxrwxrwx 1 gowri gowri 275 Feb 13 20:22 hello-1.c -rwxrwxrwx 1 gowri gowri 311 Feb 20 19:43 Makefile -rwxrwxrwx 1 gowri gowri 289 Feb 20 19:41 Makefile_hand -rwxrwxrwx 1 gowri gowri 167 Feb 13 20:54 Makefile_new Please do help me here Gowri -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/