Flymake configuration error while programming in C

Question

When trying to run M-x Flymake-Mode in Emacs I get:

Flymake: Configuration error has occured while running (make -s -C ./CHK_SOURCES=helloworld_flymake.c SYNTAX_         


        

Answer 1

Is this the actual content of your makefile? It looks like there is a space ' ' before the second line. This is supposed to be a tab:

helloworld: helloworld.c
 gcc helloworld.c -o helloworld

More like this:

helloworld: helloworld.c
    gcc helloworld.c -o helloworld

Keeping in mind, that the SO editor seems to have converted my tab character to spaces, so don't do that.

helloworld: helloworld.c
gcc helloworld.c -o helloworld