well gosh darn it, it worked in *my* version of make.... :-) Its fixed now.. Thanks I guess I havent run 'yum update' in a little while... :-) JIM Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 16:22:09 +1000 From: anthcp@gmail.com To: app_rpt-users@qrvc.com Subject: [App_rpt-users] Makefile with spaces instead of tabs Hi Steve, I just did a SVN download for the latest Allstar code and my Make failed with the error "missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces)" I ran "unexpand" over the Makefile to convert the spaces to tabs and it is now working... Just thought I would let you know... Regards Anthony Percy VK2ACP