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Re: Can't run Make under cygwin on Win2000
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:15:44PM -0400, John Peacock wrote:
>turner@uvs.is wrote:
>>
>> The subject says it all. When I run *any* Makefile I get this error:
>> Makefile:644: *** missing separator. Stop
>>
>> This is wierd because the Makefiles in question have be auto generated by
>> Perl during an install of some Perl modules.
>>
>> I really need this to work since I will be doing a lot of Perl development
>> on my Win2000 box.
>
>Are you using 'textmode' drive mounts or 'binmode' drive mapping? If
>the former, you should be using the latter.
This is incorrect. Make.exe should not care about binmode/textmode issues.
If it does then that's a bug.
cgf
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