Question

I have the following part of a Makefile

#.SILENT:
#.PHONY:
SHELL     := /bin/bash
################################################################
## Colordefinition
################################################################
NO_COLOR    = \x1b[0m
OK_COLOR    = \x1b[32;01m
ERROR_COLOR = \x1b[31;01m

%.pdf: %.tex
    NAME=`basename $< .tex` ;\
    echo -e "\t$(OK_COLOR)Typesetting $$NAME$(NO_COLOR)" ;\
    pdflatex -draftmode -interaction=nonstopmode $< > /dev/null ;\
    if [ $$? = 0 ] ; then \
      echo -e "\t$(OK_COLOR)compilation in draftmode without erros$(NO_COLOR)" ;\
      pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode $< > /dev/null ;\
      if [ -e $$NAME.glo ] ; then \
        echo -e "$(OK_COLOR)Typesetting $$NAME.glo$(NO_COLOR)" ;\
        makeindex -s gglo.ist -o $$NAME.gls $$NAME.glo ;\
      fi ;\
      if [ -e $$NAME.idx ] ; then \
        echo -e "$(OK_COLOR)Typesetting $$NAME.idx$(NO_COLOR)" ;\
        makeinde -s gind.ist $$NAME.idx ;\
      fi ;\ 
    else \
      echo -e "\t$(ERROR_COLOR)compilation in draftmode with erros$(NO_COLOR)" ;\
      exit 0;\
    fi ;\
    echo -e "\t$(OK_COLOR)Typesetting $$NAME finished $(NO_COLOR)" ;\

The makefile doens’t work and I can’t find the error.

My goal is to type:

make test.pdf

The following example can be used for testing (test.tex):

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Hello World!
\end{document}

How must the Makefile improve?

Answer 1

You have a superfluous space after the backslash in the line 14 (fi ;\) directly before the else.