Makefile: 6: *** missing delimiter. Stop

Question

HEADERS = schedule.h 

default: papcmp

program.o: schedule.c $(HEADERS)
    gcc -g -lnuma -lm -pthread schedule.c -lutil -lz -o schedule.o

program: schedule.o
    gcc schedule.o -o papcmp

clean:
    -rm -f schedule.o
    -rm -f papcmp
    -rm -f *.log dump.gz

This is the first time I'm trying to create a make file. and it looks like there is a mistake. could you help me? The line that is in has an error in accordance with the output. bold

Answer 1

Make is very picky about spaces and tabs. Command lines should absolutely be indented with one tab, not spaces. You may need to configure the editor to create tab characters.