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I have not been able to "make bootstrap" when building Emacs under Mac 
OS X 10.2.3, December 2002 developer tools.  All I get is

(cd src;      make  mostlyclean)
Makefile:66: *** missing separator.  Stop.
make: *** [bootstrap-clean-before] Error 2

This error persists even after trashing the entire emacs distribution 
and reloading it from Sourceforge.

Can anyone provide me with some insight on what this means or how I 
might fix it?

Many thanks,

Tim Larkin
Abstract Tools
Caroline, NY