makefile – Make error: missing separator

makefile – Make error: missing separator

As indicated in the online manual, the most common cause for that error is that lines are indented with spaces when make expects tab characters.

Correct

target: 
tcmd

where t is TAB (U+0009)

Wrong

target:
....cmd

where each . represents a SPACE (U+0020).

Just for grins, and in case somebody else runs into a similar error:

I got the infamous missing separator error because I had invoked a rule defining a function as

($eval $(call function,args))

rather than

$(eval $(call function,args))

i.e. ($ rather than $(.

makefile – Make error: missing separator

This is a syntax error in your Makefile. Its quite hard to be more specific than that, without seeing the file itself, or relevant portion(s) thereof.