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by **Patrick La** » Wed, 19 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Hi all:

Using the same makefile, I have successfully compiled a set of code in
Solaris, but not in Caldera 2.3 (kernel 2.2.16). The error I got from
Linux is:

makefile:168: *** missing separator. Stop.

What does this error mean?

Also, how do I see what version of glibc I am using? Would it cause
this problem?

Thanks very much in advance.

Patrick.

by **Tim Princ** » Wed, 19 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Check that line number and just ahead. Make sure your file still has
hard tabs where they were in the original, and that there are no \r
characters. e.g. if you ftp from unix to a Windows box, set binary
mode.

--
Tim Prince

Quote:> Hi all:

> Using the same makefile, I have successfully compiled a set of code in
> Solaris, but not in Caldera 2.3 (kernel 2.2.16). The error I got from
> Linux is:

> makefile:168: *** missing separator. Stop.

> What does this error mean?

> Thanks very much in advance.

> Patrick.

by **Patrick La** » Thu, 20 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Thanks very much Tim. Everything seems right in the makefile, except that
I did not quite understand the following:

> Check that line number and just ahead. Make sure your file still has

What did you mean by "line number and just ahead"? What kind of line
number should I be looking for? Sorry that if this is a stupid question.
I have been so stuck with visual c++, and am currently encouraged to try
linux development.

Thanks again.

Patrick.

by **Patrick La** » Thu, 20 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Thanks very much Tim. Everything seems right in the makefile, except that
I did not quite understand the following:

> Check that line number and just ahead. Make sure your file still has

What did you mean by "line number and just ahead"? What kind of line
number should I be looking for? Sorry that if this is a stupid question.
I have been so stuck with visual c++, and am currently encouraged to try
linux development.

Thanks again.

Patrick.

by **Patrick La** » Thu, 20 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Thanks very much Tim. Everything seems right in the makefile, except that
I did not quite understand the following:

> Check that line number and just ahead. Make sure your file still has

What did you mean by "line number and just ahead"? What kind of line
number should I be looking for? Sorry that if this is a stupid question.
I have been so stuck with visual c++, and am currently encouraged to try
linux development.

Thanks again.

Patrick.

by **Patrick La** » Thu, 20 Jul 2000 04:00:00

Sorry that my news client died while I was sending this reply. I kept
pressing Send, and it turned out to have sent it a few times
......................

Patrick.

by **Bob Hau** » Thu, 20 Jul 2000 04:00:00

>Using the same makefile,

How did you transfer the file? Perhaps it got mangled in transport.
Also, Solaris make and gnu make are not 100% compatible.

Quote:>I have successfully compiled a set of code in Solaris, but not in
>Caldera 2.3 (kernel 2.2.16).
>makefile:168: *** missing separator. Stop.

Line #168 in the makefile probably has a command that is indented with
a space instead of a hard tab.

bogus: some-stuff
$(CC) $(CLFAGS) $<

The second line above has to be indented with a tab rather than with
spaces.

Quote:>Also, how do I see what version of glibc I am using? Would it cause
>this problem?

"rpm -q glibc", and no.

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-| Codem Systems, Inc.
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Problem with make on Caldera 2.3 linux box.

Problem with make on Caldera 2.3 linux box.

Problem with make on Caldera 2.3 linux box.

Problem with make on Caldera 2.3 linux box.

Problem with make on Caldera 2.3 linux box.

Problem with make on Caldera 2.3 linux box.

Problem with make on Caldera 2.3 linux box.

Problem with make on Caldera 2.3 linux box.