Must be a separator on rules

[Nameesh]

Hi,

I am trying to compile few javat files on unix nd I am gettin gthe following error :

Make : Must be a separator on rule line 11:Stop

Please suggest the reason and possible solution.

Regards,
Nameesh.

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

Might be the files are in a wrong format. Do:
cat -tv
and look at the end of the lines. If there is a ^M there, you need to convert these 'DOS' files to 'unix' files:
for i in *
do
mv $i $i.bck
dos2unix $i.bck >$i
done

Then retry your command.

If that is not the case, look at line 11 of the file it complains about and see if there is anything strange there. If you don't see anything strange, try posting more info, for instance this 11th line and versions of your java compiler...

[Edgar Matzinger]

Hi Nameesh,

a rule in a has the following format:

tst.o:tst.j
java tst.j

Either in your case tst.o does not have a
following colon. Or your java command has no
preceeding character.

HTH, Edgar.