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Re: make always fails


For anyone who's curious, I've looked at Michael's makefile and the major
problem seems to be missing tabs for all statements following rules.  Too 
bad the man page for make doesn't describe the makefile format!;-)

Larry


At 07:43 PM 11/16/2000, Earnie Boyd wrote:
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>Cheers,
>Earnie.
>--- Michael Cook <mcook38@excite.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >   Thanks for the reply - I thought maybe someone could spot something wrong
> > with my Cygwin setup...at any rate, here is a copy of it failing:
> > 
> > ~/temp -> ls -l
> > total 65
> > -rw-r--r--   1 mcook    None       133120 Oct 27 15:32 Net-Telnet-3.02.tar
> > ~/temp -> tar xfp Net-Telnet-3.02.tar
> > ~/temp -> cd Net-Telnet-3.02
> > ~/temp/Net-Telnet-3.02 -> tail -35 README
> > 
> >   Installation
> >   ------------
> > 
> >     To install, cd to the directory containing the unpacked
> >     distribution and do one of the following:
> > 
> >     a.  Create a makefile by running Makefile.PL using the perl
> >         program into whose library you want to install and then run
> >         make three times:
> > 
> >             perl Makefile.PL
> >             make
> >             make test
> >             make install
> > 
> >     b.  To install into a private library, for example your home
> >         directory:
> > 
> >             perl Makefile.PL \
> >                  INSTALLSITELIB=$HOME/lib/perl \
> >                  INSTALLMAN3DIR=$HOME/lib/perl/man/man3
> >             make
> >             make test
> >             make pure_install
> > 
> >     c.  Alternatively, you can just copy or move Telnet.pm
> >         from the distribution into a directory named Net/ in the Perl
> >         library.  You can then manually build the documentation using
> >         pod2man or pod2html.
> > 
> > --
> > Jay Rogers
> > jay@rgrs.com
> > May 27, 2000
> > ~/temp/Net-Telnet-3.02 -> perl Makefile.PL
> > Checking if your kit is complete...
> > Looks good
> > Writing Makefile for Net::Telnet
> > ~/temp/Net-Telnet-3.02 -> make
> > Makefile:641: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> > ~/temp/Net-Telnet-3.02 ->
> > 
> > Thanks!
> >   Michael
> > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:14:42 -0800 (PST), Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > 
> > >  --- Michael Cook <mcook38@excite.com> wrote:
> > >  > Hello,
> > >  >   I have tried to compile many packages & every one fails in the 'make'
> > >  > stage. I Have read the FAQ's, searched the archives & can't find any
> > ideas.
> > >  > Below is a cygcheck -s -r. Can anyone help me with this?
> > >  
> > >  Not without knowing what the errors are.  Do you think we're all
> > telepathic. 
> > >  Be specific if you want help.
> > >  
> > >  BTW, `mount -b --change-cygdrive-prefix /cygdrive' may help.
> > >  
> > >  Cheers,
> > >  
> > >  =====
> > >  Earnie Boyd
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