Errors in make file : *** missing separator. Stop

Question

I am facing errors in make file in CentOS 6.02 64 bit. I need to know what should be done to make the makefile workable. Any suggestion will be greatly helpful. My make file is pasted below: -

#    .SUFFIXES: .cc $(.SUFFIXES)    ALL = libpal.a    #all = $(ALL)  all: $(ALL)    .cpp.o:              $(C++) -o $@ -c $(PROF) $(CFLAGS) $*.cpp  .cc.o:              $(C++) -o $@ -c $(PROF) $(CFLAGS) $*.cc  .c.o:              $(CC) -o $@ -c $(PROF) $(CFLAGS) $*.c    top_srcdir = ..  OPENSSL_LIB_DIR = ../../ThirdPartyLibs/openssl-0.9.8e/include BOOST_DIR = ../../ThirdPartyLibs/boost/stage/lib  BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR = ../../ThirdPartyLibs/boost      CC = gcc  C++ = g++  CCOPT = -Os -Wall -Wno-deprecated  CCOPT_DEBUG = -Wall -g -Wno-deprecated  PROF =     STATIC = -static      INCLUDE = \  -I./usr/include/sys   -I./Headers \   -I$(top_srcdir)/PAL/Headers \   -I$(top_srcdir)/BaseMulti/Headers \   -I$(top_srcdir)/NetworkMulti/Headers \   -I$(top_srcdir)/RTP/Headers \   -I$(BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR) \   -I$(OPENSSL_LIB_DIR) \    LIBDIRS = \      -L$(BOOST_DIR) \      #XXX NLAYER define / MB_DEBUG  DEFINE =  -D_LINUX -DDEBUGLOG -D_INDENT_DB_PRINT -fsigned-char -fno-inline -D_REENTRANT -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_POSIX_PER_PROCESS_TIMER_SOURCE -D_PTHREADS -DUNICODE #-DDISABLE_LOG    SHLIB_SUFFIX   = .so  SHLIB_LD       = gcc -shared  SHLIB_LD_LIBS  =   SHLIB_CFLAGS   = -fPIC    BFLAGS = $(DEFINE) $(INCLUDE)  CFLAGS = $(CCOPT) $(BFLAGS)    OBJ_C =    OBJ_CC = \      ./Sources/PALsystime.o \      ./Sources/PALdebug.o \      ./Sources/PALdebuglog.o \      ./Sources/PALthread.o \      ./Sources/PALcritsec.o \      ./Sources/PALprofiler.o \      ./Sources/PALserializable.o \      ./Sources/PALinet.o \      ./Sources/PALnetwork.o \      ./Sources/PALsocket.o \      ./Sources/PALlocalhostUdpEvent.o \      ./Sources/PALpollarray.o \      ./Sources/PALrandom.o \    OBJS = $(OBJ_C) $(OBJ_CC)     SRCS = $(OBJ_C:.o=.c) $(OBJ_CC:.o=.cc)    debug: DEFINE += -DDEBUG  debug: BFLAGS = $(DEFINE) $(INCLUDE)  debug: CFLAGS = $(CCOPT_DEBUG) $(BFLAGS)  debug: $(OBJS)      ar crsu libpal_debug.a $(OBJS)    libpal.a: $(OBJS)      ar crsu libpal.a $(OBJS)    cleandeps:        $(RM) ./Sources/*.o .depend* core    clean: cleandeps          $(RM) ./libpal.a ./libpal_debug.a      $(RM) $(ALL) 

And the resultant error is:

Makefile:34: *** missing separator.  Stop. 

Answer 1

You can find an explanation of this error in Appendix B Errors Generated by Make.

Every line in a recipe must begin with a tab character. The recipes starting with $(C++) and $(CC) near the top of your file do not seem to start with a tab character.

Additionally, the section

INCLUDE = \     -I./usr/include/sys     -I./Headers \ 

seems to be missing a backslash after sys and that same section (and many more) have superfluous empty lines.