error message when running Make

oldirtybrza

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Im trying to install libsigc++-2.0.17 from source. Running the configure script went fine, and when I ran $ make, I got this error:

Makefile:360: *** missing separator. Stop.

All the stuff I've read online says that the number (in this case, the 360) means that at that line in the file, there is a line beginning with a space when it should begin with a tab. However, I cannot find any lines like this from what I see, although it's possible it's because there is a line actually split into two and if you dont know the syntax then you're screwed.

Here are a few lines from the file, the second line being line #360:

case $$f in \
*=* | --[!k]*);; \
*k*) failcom='fail=yes';; \
esac; \

help is appreciated
 
You might like to install Emacs; it has special edition mode for Makefiles and
it asks if you like to save Makefile which has lines with nothing more than tab,
for example.
 
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