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A Makefile for LaTeX - drop it in, type make, and magic happens.
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Makefile does not with with MinGW/MSYS on Windows 7 #122

Closed shiblon closed 8 years ago

shiblon commented 8 years ago

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 109

I'm running Windows 7 x64. I installed the most recent stable MSYS release (obtained
by running mingw-get-inst-20101030.exe and selecting the development tools). I did
this to get Make installed. When I run "make help" I get an error:

Makefile:802: *** missing separator.  Stop.

Which points to this line in the Makefile (version 2.2.0-rc7):

^Ela'A' \:noh
j

Commenting out the lines fixed allowed me to run "make help".

Reported by jgbailey on 2011-01-14 00:23:45

shiblon commented 8 years ago 
Interesting.  Now that I look at it, it makes sense that that messes up on Windows,
since it embeds a newline.  I'm just deleting the comment, since it's out of date anyway.
 I now have code that generates in-line sed from real script files on disk, now, so
that macro is obsolete.

r3cd05a6da9ed contains the fix, and I'm pushing rc8 right now.

Reported by shiblon on 2011-01-14 16:04:00