Problem with make 'undef missing'

Sat Sep 6 19:26:00 GMT 2003

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Philippe Bastiani wrote:
> Hi,
>> I use a generic makefile on several systems... In the past, this makefile
> worked fine under Cygwin !
> Now, I obtain the following error: 'makefile.def:3: *** <endef> missing...
>> See, the following stupid makefile:
> *** Begin of file ***
> ifneq ($(strip $(SUBDIRS)),)
> else
> <TAB>define MAKE_SUBDIRS
> <TAB><TAB>$(MAKE_NOTHING)
> <TAB>endef
> endif
>> .PHONY : all
> all : depend
>> .PHONY : depend
> depend depends: $(CCLIST) $(CLIST)
> $(MAKE_DEPENDS)
> $(MAKE_SUBDIRS)
> *** end of file ***
>> Please note: if I replace the <TAB> character (line 5, before the endef) by
> blank characters.. make works with no error !
>> a+

Philippe,
This was reported before (quite recently, maybe in the past couple of
months). I don't recall the exact details or whether there was a
resolution, but you should be able to find it in the archives. Sorry I
couldn't me more helpful.
	Igor
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