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On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Say that i want to process a couple of files, how does a make file look?
> With:
>
> tex : blabla.tex
>       texexec --pdf blabla
>
>
> and
>

If you use gnu make the syntax is very critical:

tex: blabla.tex
	texexec --pdf

The colon (:) *must* follow the target (e.g. no spaces), and the execution
line(s) must be preceeded by a tab (Ctrl+I, ASCII 9) character.

gilbert.