On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 06:29:32AM -0500, Douglas Carmichael wrote: > To whom it may concern: > > When I try to build CDE on OpenBSD 5.9 using the build instructions in the > wiki (https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/OpenBSDBuild/ > <https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/OpenBSDBuild/>) I get these error > messages regarding dtlogin after I do a ‘make World’: > > ----- > > making Makefiles in programs/dtlogin... > > *** Parse error in /root/cdesktopenv-code/cde/programs/dtlogin: Unassociated > shell command " DEFINES = $(DTDEFINES) -DXDMCP" (Makefile:776) > > cleaning in programs/dtlogin... > > *** Parse error in /root/cdesktopenv-code/cde/programs/dtlogin: Unassociated > shell command " DEFINES = $(DTDEFINES) -DXDMCP" (Makefile:776) > > — > > None of the CDE packages are built. > > What could caused this?
If I understand correctly, your (OpenBSD's) make is broken, and is parsing some macro definitions as shell commands. (Didn't OpenBSD semi-recently update the make parser?) The POSIX 2013 'make' manpage has this comment (under RATIONALE, in the paragraph starting "Novice users of make...", about 9 paragraphs from the bottom): ...There is extensive historical practice of allowing leading <space> characters before definitions. Forcing macro lines into column 1 would be a backwards-compatibility problem for some makefiles. Therefore, historical practice was restored. Strictly speaking, CDE makefiles need not be interpreted as per POSIX (I don't think we use .POSIX:), but this is a question of compatability, and that's the rationale. Hope this helps, Isaac Dunham (PS: I'm just here briefly.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
