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From: Chuck Bacon <crtb@upcoming.dcrt.nih.gov>
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To: crtb@upcoming.dcrt.nih.gov, dirk@hal.in-berlin.de
Subject: Re: Perl5.001m dies quickly
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> 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.

Thanks; I found 'em and feel a bit foolish.  After all this time,
I should know how to get past this nonsense ;-(

> 	Best regards Dirk

> -- 
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Bingo!  How to get rich fast!

	Chuck Bacon -- crtb@helix.nih.gov
		FWIW, BTW, IMHO, AFAIK, YMMV RSN.  OTOH, RTFM.  TTYL.