11:00:03sts-qrpx: Maybe, never seen this. Did your editor replace tabs with spaces? Wrong make-thing? No idea!
12:04:28rpxThanks for comment. No worries, will elaborate later.
14:14:09fitzsimrpx: what does "make --version" print for you?
14:14:37fitzsimrpx: I don't see the "Invalid line type" messages on GNU Make 4.3
14:28:08rpxfitzsim: Nothing, because I am on FreeBSD and make is not gmake (Gnu Make). Think it's something related to that. So, either I'll try later with gmake or try to find out what's the issue with my make cmd
14:34:41fitzsimrpx: oh, OK; likely an incompatibility then
14:34:59fitzsimrpx: can you reduce the Makefile to a minimal test case that shows the incompatibility?