Re: i tried to change the makefile.am in fontconfig-2.2.1 i dont know if i did it right i still get error 2

[Danilo Segan <danilo gnome org>]

Nuju Castle <Justmedric netzero net> writes:

> Help S.O.S.!!!!

Is this some new "help" protocol? ;) 

> Subject: i tried to change the makefile.am in fontconfig-2.2.1 i dont know
> if i did it right i still get error 2

Why would you want to change Makefile.am? What exactly did you change?

> Makefile:485: *** missing separator.  Stop.

You obviously didn't do it right. 

This is what "info make" says about it:

`missing separator.  Stop.'
`missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces?).  Stop.'
     This means that `make' could not understand much of anything about
     the command line it just read.  GNU `make' looks for various kinds
     of separators (`:', `=', TAB characters, etc.) to help it decide
     what kind of commandline it's seeing.  This means it couldn't find
     a valid one.

     One of the most common reasons for this message is that you (or
     perhaps your oh-so-helpful editor, as is the case with many
     MS-Windows editors) have attempted to indent your command scripts
     with spaces instead of a TAB character.  In this case, `make' will
     use the second form of the error above.  Remember that every line
     in the command script must begin with a TAB character.  Eight
     spaces do not count.  *Note Rule Syntax::.

HTH,
Danilo