Missing separator error when building

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Title: Missing separator error when building


Trying to build on Solars 10 SPARC.
XFree86 version 4.7.0

Using GNU Make, not Sun's make.

Get this error:


gmake[3]: Entering directory `/apps/XFree86/v4.7.0/xc/lib/freetype2'
Makefile:1152: *** missing separator.  Stop.


Note that the word "separator" in the make lingo means tab character.

When I look at the Makefile in the freetype2 directory I can see what the problem is.
There is a section that looks like this:


install::
\
        @if [ -f $(DESTDIR)$(INCDIR)/freetype2/ft2build.h ]; then \
\
            (set -x; $(RM) -f $(DESTDIR)$(INCDIR)/freetype2/ft2build.h) \
\
        fi


What make is saying is that after a target (in this case 'install') the actions under that target must be indented by a tab character.

As you can see this is not the case because of those lines with a single initial backslash on them.


I'm really a newbie on make and the circus around it so I do not know how to proceed.
I understand that the Makefile in question is generated every time I run the 'make World' command but I'm
not clever enough to follow the track and pinpoint where this goes wrong.

thanks for any help you can give.



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