Question

I’m following this example: http://brianstoner.com/blog/testing-in-nodejs-with-mocha/

I defined a Makefile in my root directory:

REPORTER = dot

test:
  @NODE_ENV=test ./node_modules/.bin/mocha \
    --reporter $(REPORTER) \

test-w:
  @NODE_ENV=test ./node_modules/.bin/mocha \
    --reporter $(REPORTER) \
    --watch

.PHONY: test test-w

But when I run ‘make test’ it says “make: Nothing to be done for `test’.”

Answer 1

Turns out Makefiles are tab-sensitive — and those were clobbered when I cut-n-paste the file…

In vi, i turned on tabs and spacing to fix it:

vi Makefile
:set list

Now you can retab the file and ensure you are doing it correctly.