I don't know a lot about makefiles but get their general purpose. I've installed all of the dependencies for a project and I'm simply trying to run make on an old makefile, however I get the following error:
"makefile:3: *** missing separator. Stop"
As I understand it this means that it's looking for a tab/etc., however this is all that is on lines 1-3:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
I already had to convert this file from all-spaces to tabs, however I wouldn't think a tab or other separator would be required here. This is from an old project so I'm sure this won't be the first problem I run into but I can't find a formatting tool or anything else online to help.
(edit: if I do put a tab there it turns into an entirely different error so I feel like this is an encoding issue or something?)
Any advice is appreciated!