From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 8 08:06:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA03396 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Oct 1995 08:06:54 -0700 Received: from upcoming.dcrt.nih.gov (upcoming.dcrt.nih.gov [156.40.112.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA03391 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 1995 08:06:47 -0700 Received: (from crtb@localhost) by upcoming.dcrt.nih.gov (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA26826; Sun, 8 Oct 1995 11:06:45 -0400 Date: Sun, 8 Oct 1995 11:06:45 -0400 From: Chuck Bacon Message-Id: <199510081506.LAA26826@upcoming.dcrt.nih.gov> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Perl5.001m dies quickly Cc: crtb@upcoming.dcrt.nih.gov Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 Daisy10:51> Well, lines 108-112 of Makefile look like: -------- all: makefile miniperl $(private) $(public) $(dynamic_ext) @echo " "; echo " Making x2p stuff"; cd x2p; $(MAKE) all # This is now done by installman only if you actually want the man pages. # @echo " "; echo " Making docs"; cd pod; $(MAKE) all; -------- and lines 231-235 look like: -------- perl opcode.pl perl embed.pl # Extensions: # Names added to $(dynamic_ext) or $(static_ext) will automatically -------- I note that both fatal error lines are blank; line 110 has a tab, but line 233 is truly blank. By deleting the tab from line 110, I got make down to one fatal error message. But line 233 baffles me, since it's truly blank. I downloaded perl5.001m.tar.gz from perl.com, so it's the real thing. Is there a problem with /usr/bin/make in FreeBSD 2.0.5R ? I'd appreciate e-mail on this, since I can't subscribe to questions. Chuck Bacon - crtb@upcoming.dcrt.nih.gov "People who like this kind of thing will find this the sort of thing they like." --A. Lincoln