make file invalid?

I tried running drush make locally and get the following:

$ drush make drupal-org.make 
Make new site in the current directory? (y/n): y
Project information for admin retrieved.                                                                                                                                                     [ok]
Project information for cck retrieved.                                                                                                                                                       [ok]
Project information for ctools retrieved.                                                                                                                                                    [ok]
Project information for devel retrieved.                                                                                                                                                     [ok]
Project information for features retrieved.                                                                                                                                                  [ok]
Project information for context retrieved.                                                                                                                                                   [ok]
Project information for openidadmin retrieved.                                                                                                                                               [ok]
Project information for strongarm retrieved.                                                                                                                                                 [ok]
No core project specified.                                                                                                                                                                   [error]
An error occurred at function : drush_drush_make_make

I then tried to paste the make file into the drupal-org.make file verification form (http://drupal.org/node/820914/verify-make-file) and it gives a lot of errors.