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Re: Newbie Install problems!

2000-07-24 09:51:22
%% Mark Cotter <mcotter(_at_)www(_dot_)milanet(_dot_)ie> writes:

  mc> Its giving out about line 167 in the Makefile......
  mc>   Makefile:167: *** missing separator.  Stop.

  mc> Heres the section in the Makefile....

  mc> 163       config.check: config.h
  mc> 164               echo Housekeeping file >$@
  mc> 165               mkdir new 2>$(DEVNULL); exit 0
  mc> 166               @-if $(FGREP) -n -e '`' config.h $(DEVNULL) | $(FGREP) 
-v EOFName; \
  mc> 167       then \
  mc> 168       echo;echo '   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
WARNING^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^';\
  mc> 169       echo '   * Having backquotes in there could be unhealthy!*';\
  mc> 170       echo;fi;exit 0

I'd say it's very likely this file has somehow been translated to DOS
CRLF line endings, instead of UNIX LF line endings.

You can either edit it back again with an editor, or use something like
a dos2unix filter if you have one.

Or, you can go get a more recent version of GNU make; all the versions
starting with GNU make 3.78 (IIRC) will allow both CRLF and LF line
endings in makefiles without complaint.  The latest version is 3.79.1.

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