Hi all,

I would like to create a small makefile to clean my source code. Eventually I also want to compile my application. (The software is a Lazarus project; I'm under win32).

In the following structure I made two Makefile.fpc:

./Makefile.fpc
./bin/Makefile.fpc

Code of ./Makefile.fpc:
[target]
dirs=bin

[rules]
clean: clean
$(MAKE) -C bin clean

Code of ./bin/Makefile.fpc:
[clean]
files=$(wildcard ./*$(OEXT)) $(wildcard ./*$(PPUEXT)) $(wildcard ./*$(RSTEXT))

I compile both files with in ./ :
fpcmake -r

Now when I execute, I get a problem:
make clean
makefile:1341: *** missing separator. Stop.

You have to put a tab character in front of the "$(MAKE) .." command. If there are spaces instead of a tab, you will get the error you reported.

Jonas

Alexandre Leclerc wrote

Now when I execute, I get a problem: make clean makefile:1341: *** missing separator. Stop.

This is GNUmake. You need <TAB> chars instead of spaces in your rule-commands:

clean: clean   $(MAKE) -C bin clean

^ about here

Vinzent.

2006/7/13, Jonas Maebe :

You won a piece of robot!

Thank you very much.

Alexandre Leclerc wrote

You won a piece of robot!

Oh man. And I was just two minutes late. ;)