Cannot install PG Partman on MacOS - Make returning error `missing separator`

Question

I am trying to install pg_partman on my Mac. I have tried both my M1 mac and Intel mac. Both of them return the following error when I run make install: Makefile:27: *** missing separator. Stop.

Line 27 contains:

sql/$(EXTENSION)--$(EXTVERSION).sql: $(sort $(wildcard sql/types/*.sql)) $(sort $(wildcard sql/tables/*.sql)) $(sort $(wildcard sql/functions/*.sql)) $(sort $(wildcard sql/procedures/*.sql))

This error is usually due to spaces instead of tabs. However I get this error when I run make install on any of the released versions of pg_partman. I opened an Issue with the pg_partman team and they have no issues running make install, but I believe they are running it on a Linux machine.

I thought it might be due to my M1 mac but when I run on my Intel mac I get the same error. I'm at a complete loss. Machine details below

MacOS Monterey: 12.3.1

which make: /usr/bin/make

make --version:

GNU Make 3.81 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i386-apple-darwin11.3.0

Answer 1

Using sudo in sudo make install fixed my issue.