Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:06:33 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman <iceberg@pobox.com> To: vih@altern.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make Message-ID: <19990826120633.F92455@comp04.prc.uic.edu> In-Reply-To: <37C56E36.A9C96840@taima.on.ca> References: <37C56E36.A9C96840@taima.on.ca>
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> I'm not sure about this problem, but each time I try to install
> something from sources I downloaded, I get this message:
>
> "Makefile", line 387: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
Hi --
Whenever this sort of thing happens to me, it's because the author was
using GNU make and/or bash, e.g. on a Linux box, and he built in an
incompatibility that breaks on sh and PMake (the make on BSD). For a
quick fix, I'd try installing GNU make and/or bash.
If you need specifics, and as just a good habit, you'd better send the
broken portion of the Makefile and/or the name of the software
package/version on which this happened.
Lucas
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S. Lucas Bergman
University of Illinois at Chicago
Mathematics Department
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