Make Error: Missing Separator

Question

I am attempting to install rexec into Redhat Enterprise Release 4. Everytime I attempt to use the make command I get the following error.

Makefile:15: *** missing separator. Stop.

I have looked elsewhere on the net and line 15 of the Makefile has the below:

.include (I am unsure why but this website is blanking out what comes after .include, it is bsd.kmod.mk surrounded by <>)

I have used vi to make sure that space in the middle is a TAB and not 8 spaces, this does not resolve the issue. I have placed a TAB in front of the .include as I read somewhere there has to be a tab at the beginning, I then get a different error:

make: *** No rule to make target 'rexec.ko' , needed by 'load'. Stop.

I am unsure what else I'm supposed to do to get rexec installed, any clues?

Entire Makefile:

SRCS = rexec.c vnode_if.h KMOD = rexec KO = ${KMOD}.ko KLDMOD = t

KLDLOAD = /sbin/kldload KLDUNLOAD = /sbin/kldunload

load: ${KO} ${KLDLOAD} -v ./${KO}

unload: ${KO} ${KLDUNLOAD} -v -n ${KO}

.include (I am unsure why but this website is blanking out what comes after .include, it is bsd.kmod.mk surrounded by <>)

Answer 1

I believe the .include should be using spaces. Check out the last part of the Makefile. It should end like this:

unload: ${KO}
<tab>${KLDUNLOAD} -v -n ${KO}

.include <bsd.kmod.mk>

Where <tab> is an actual tab character. And that blank line better be blank; no tricksy whitespace on it.