In article <Pine.GSO.4.10.10110301250370.25615-100000@odin.unik.no>,
Morten Owen <jonow@unik.no> wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I am a newbie to NetBSD, and am having some, I guess, rookie problems. I
>have a program that I have been running under Sun OS and Linux. Now that I
>need to take it on to NetBSD, I am facing problems. The makefile will not
>compile. I am such an programming illiterate. I am getting the error
>message: 
>    "Makefile", line 11: Need an operator.
>(also other lines than 11)
>
>
>I am guessing this means that it needs gnu make to compile.

No, it just means that your makefile has spaces instead of tabs in some
lines.

christos