Makefile weird error

Question

This is my makefile and whenever I do make or make clean I get this error : "makefile:11: * missing separator. Stop." I am pretty sure that I did it right, but not sure why this error is showing up. Its my first time dealing with this error so I have no clue how to fix it or go about it...

 COMPILER = gcc
 CCFLAGS = -g -Wall
 CFLAGS2 = -g

 all: malloc test

 debug:
make DEBUG=TRUE

 malloc.o: malloc.c malloc.h
$(COMPILER) $(CCFLAGS) -c malloc.c malloc.h

 malloc: malloc.o
$(COMPILER) $(CCFLAGS) -o malloc malloc.o

 test.o: test.c
$(COMPILER) $(CFLAGS2) -c test.c

 test: malloc.o test.o
$(COMPILER) $(CCFLAGS) -o test test.o malloc.o

 ifeq ($(DEBUG), TRUE)
  CCFLAGS += -g
 endif

 clean:
rm -f malloc
rm -f *.o
rm -f test
rm -f *.o



ERROR
  "makefile:11: *** missing separator.  Stop."

Answer 1

Makefile requires you to have a tab character at the beginning of all the recipe lines.

 target ... : prerequisites ...
 <TAB>recipe
 <TAB>...
 <TAB>...