Is this the problem you are seeing:
There is a mistake in the Makefile.PL. Edit the Makefile.PL and search
for "NOOP" to find the line:
@$(NOOP)
Replace the spaces in front of "@$(NOOP)" with a <tab> character.
Now rerun perl Makefile.PL.
Martin
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Martin J. Evans
Easysoft Ltd, UK
Development
On 10-Jan-2004 Gary Ebersole wrote:
> I'm trying to install DBD-ODBC-1.06 for Perl 5.8.0 which is included
> with the standard RH 9.0 distribution packaged on a CD. As the following
> out shows, 'Makefile.PL' successfully generates a 'Makefile' for the
> iODBC driver manager:
>
> == START LOG ================================
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] DBD-ODBC-1.06]# perl Makefile.PL
>
> Configuring DBD::ODBC ...
>
>>>> Remember to actually *READ* the README file!
> And re-read it if you have any problems.
>
> Using DBI 1.39 installed in
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI
> Using ODBC in /usr
>
> Umm, this looks like a iodbc type of driver manager.
>
> We expect to find the isql.h, isqlext.h and iodbc.h files (which were
> supplied with iODBC) in $ODBCHOME/include directory alongside
> the /usr/lib/libiodbc.a /usr/lib/libiodbc.so /usr/lib/libiodbcadm.a
> /usr/lib/libiodbcadm.so /usr/lib/libiodbcinst.a /usr/lib/libiodbcinst.so
> library.
>
>
> Checking if your kit is complete...
> Looks good
> Injecting selected odbc driver into cc command
> Injecting selected odbc driver into cc command
> Using DBI 1.39 installed in
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBI
> Writing Makefile for DBD::ODBC
>
> The DBD::ODBC tests will use these values for the database connection:
> DBI_DSN=dbi:ODBC:test01 e.g. dbi:ODBC:demo
> DBI_USER=gary
> DBI_PASS=moi
> === END LOG ==================================
>
> However, 'make' throws the following error:
>
> == START LOG ================================
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] DBD-ODBC-1.06]# make
> Makefile:90: *** missing separator. Stop.
> === END LOG ==================================
>
> Line 90 contains:
>
> installman1
>
> You can hack around this one by completing the variable assignment to
> installman1='' (not a good idea if 'make' needs this variable ...) but
> the same type of error is found on line 100 which contains:
>
> sit
>
> Using the same hack to set 'sit' to null, and re-running 'make' throws
> yet another error:
>
> Makefile:334: *** missing separator. Stop.
>
> where 'config :: $(changes_pm)
> @$(NOOP)' are lines 333 and 334
>
> At this, further hacking the Makefile made no sense. Any ideas? It's
> probably blindingly obvious to everybody but a newbie like myself.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Gary
