make: missing separator: Makefile.am

[fester2251]

(Sorry, so far I have been unable to determine which version of FreeCAD I downloaded from github last week.)

When I run "make", I get "/freecad/Makefile.am:40: *** missing separator. Stop."

I've gone through Makefile.am, and all the tabs are tabs, not spaces,

Does anybody know what the missing separator in Makefile.am is?

[peterl94]

Did you use CMake? Autotools is not supported any more.

[fester2251]

Yes, I am using CMAKE. However, Makefile.am comes with the FreeCAD download from github.

[NormandC]

Do you mean you downloaded the archived source in zip format rather than making a "git clone" in the console?

Edit: I just downloaded the zip file and the archive contains no Makefile.am...

2nd edit: it may be useful to indicate the url you got your FreeCAD sources from.

[fester2251]

git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/free-cad/code freecad

[NormandC]

OK in your first post you mentioned GitHub which is a different repository, it's actually a mirror for the one at Sourceforge. The Github one allows you to download a zip file.

It's very odd, maybe try to update your sources to current with "git pull" then try again?

Is it a fresh compile or have you already compiled FreeCAD in the same folder? I think it is recommended to do an out-of-source build as it can sometimes avoid corruption problems.

[wmayer]

When I run "make", I get "/freecad/Makefile.am:40: *** missing separator. Stop."

What are the exact commands you entered to the terminal window?