Re: Missing separator in .DELETE_ON_ERROR ?

Paul Smith <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:11:59 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.make.general
Organization GNU's Not UNIX!
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2025-06-10 at 10:05 -0700, Felix Lechner via Users list for the
GNU implementation of make wrote:
> .DELETE_ON_ERROR

This is invalid makefile syntax: .DELETE_ON_ERROR is a _target_ so you
have to add a ":" after it.

Make doesn't know what kind of line you are typing until it finds the
"separator" character, like ":" versus "=" for example.  "Missing
separator" means that it didn't find one.