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"commence before first target. Stop." error

Hi! In *.mak file I receive commands "commence before first target. Stop." I didn't change it before. How to solve this problem? Thanks!

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make (or NMAKE, or whatever flavour of make you are using) can be quite picky about the format of makefiles - check that you didn't actually edit the file in any way, e.g. changed line endings, spaces <-> tabs, etc.

Paul R  2010-05-26 12:06:34

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