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I'm having problems using a condition in one of my makefiles. I wanna
define the variable COMPILER depending on the value that is hold by the
environment variable ISP. If I use

ifeq ($(ISP),irix)
COMPILER = CC
else
COMPILER = g++
endif

I get the message 'ERROR: make: file `makefile' line 8: Must be a separator (: or ::) for rules (bu39)
' for a couple lines of the makefile. Does anybody know what's wrong there?

Thanks!

Joachim

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  jp> I'm having problems using a condition in one of my makefiles. I wanna
  jp> define the variable COMPILER depending on the value that is hold by the
  jp> environment variable ISP. If I use

  jp> ifeq ($(ISP),irix)
  jp> COMPILER = CC
  jp> else
  jp> COMPILER = g++
  jp> endif

  jp> I get the message 'ERROR: make: file `makefile' line 8: Must be a
  jp> separator (: or ::) for rules (bu39) ' for a couple lines of the
  jp> makefile. Does anybody know what's wrong there?

The above conditionals are GNU make features.  No other make has them.
It sounds like you're using some other make.  Type "make --version" and
make sure you're using GNU make.  If not, you can download and build GNU
make from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/

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