commence before first target Stop error

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In   mak file I receive commands  commence before first target  Stop   I didn t change it before   How to solve this problem

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It s a simple Mistake while adding a new file you just have to make sure that   is added to the file before and the new file  remain as it is eg   Check Out what to do if i want to add a new file named customer cc

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This means that there is a line which starts with a space  tab  or some other whitespace without having a target in front of it

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make  or NMAKE  or whatever flavour of make you are using  can be quite picky about the format of makefiles - check that you didn t actually edit the file in any way  e g  changed line endings  spaces  lt -  tabs  etc

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Also  make sure you dont have a space after   in previous line  Else this is the error

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This could also caused by mismatching brace parenthesis     TARGET       do something   Just use parenthesises and you ll be fine

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if you have added a new line  Make sure you have added next line syntax in previous line  typically if     is missing in your previous line of changes  you will get this error

[makefile] "commence before first target. Stop." error

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