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I create makefile with "xmkmf" command in imake using Ubuntu 14.04.3

when i run make command i get this error

Makefile:1056: *** missing separator.  Stop.

line 1056 is:

MComplexProgramTarget(_cmidf_.o,$(LOCAL_LIBRARIES),)
damela bapouk
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    This is duplicate of [Make error: missing separator](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/920413/make-error-missing-separator). Before posting your question on Stack Overflow you should attempt to search and see if anybody else has had a similar issue. – IKavanagh Sep 04 '15 at 18:24
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    in line NO 1056 i don't have any space or tab or any extra character! – damela bapouk Sep 04 '15 at 18:43

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The problem appears due to an unexpanded macro. For instance, in a Debian 6 system, I see the MComplexProgramTarget macro used only in the Motif.rules file, which in turn is included from cde.rules, and that is not included by any of the platform-specific imake files.

Since it is unlikely that OP has Motif installed on Ubuntu, it seems more likely that this was cut/paste from some example which was originally written for Motif, e.g., for Solaris back in the 1990s (when CDE was supported).

Thomas Dickey
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That line doesn't belong in a Makefile.

The file you're looking at is probably something like this: no Makefile, but an Imakefile. You need to feed it to xmkmf, not to make.

If it is really in the Makefile generated by xmkmf, as you claim, something is wrong in the IMakefile that xmkmf generated it from.

reinierpost
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