From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 8 16:55:18 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA16026 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Oct 1995 16:55:18 -0700 Received: from methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de (methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de [130.133.2.81]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id QAA16021 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 1995 16:55:15 -0700 Received: by methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.29.1) from hal.in-berlin.de with gsmtp id ; Mon, 9 Oct 95 00:55 MET Received: by hal.in-berlin.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0t21tr-0008QUC; Sun, 8 Oct 95 21:00 MET Message-Id: From: dirk@hal.in-berlin.de (Dirk Froemberg) Subject: Re: Perl5.001m dies quickly To: crtb@upcoming.dcrt.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 1995 21:00:43 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510081506.LAA26826@upcoming.dcrt.nih.gov> from "Chuck Bacon" at Oct 8, 95 11:06:45 am Organization: Individual Network Berlin e. V. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME7a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 823 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Chuck Bacon writes: > On a 486 w/20MB running FreeBSD 2.0.5R, tried to build perl5.001m. > I ran ./Configure and took defaults throughout. Hit return as > suggested to run make depend, and got: > > Daisy10:51> make depend > "Makefile", line 110: Need an operator > "Makefile", line 233: Need an operator > Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue Try to look for some extra tabs or spaces in the Makefile where lines seem to be empty. The make-util supplied with 2.0.5R is very strict about parsing. Best regards Dirk -- e-mail: dirk@hal.in-berlin.de PGP-Public-Key available Microsoft Network is prohibited from redistributing this work in any form, in whole or in part. License to distribute this post is available to Microsoft for $1000. Posting without permission constitutes an agreement to these terms.