Norman:  It looks like your make is not gnumake.  You should have

ls -l /usr/bin/make
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  7 Jun  8 17:42 /usr/bin/make -> gnumake

If it is a symlink to bsdmake, it won't work with many fink packages.
You'll need to change it back to gnumake.

-Jeff

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Norman Hawker wrote:

> I'm trying to install xforms and I keep running into the following
> problem:
>
>
> > Information about 1229 packages read in 1 seconds.
> > The following 2 additional packages will be installed:
> >  xforms-bin xforms-shlibs
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> > rm -rf xforms-0.9999-3
> > mkdir -p /sw/src/xforms-0.9999-3
> > tar -xzf /sw/src/xforms-0.9999.tgz
> > sed 's|@PREFIX@|/sw|g' <
> > /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11/xforms-0.9999-3.patch | patch
> > -p1
> > patching file Imakefile
> > Hunk #1 succeeded at 7 with fuzz 2.
> > patching file lib/Imakefile
> > patching file demos/Imakefile
> > patching file fd2ps/Imakefile
> > patching file fdesign/Imakefile
> > patching file lib/rgb_db.c
> >  xmkmf -a
> > mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak
> > imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config
> > make Makefiles
> > Makefile:2: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> > ###  failed, exit code 2
> > Failed: compiling xforms-0.9999-3 failed
> >
>
> Norman Hawker, Associate Professor
> Western Michigan University
> Haworth College of Business FCL Dept.
> 1903 West Michigan Avenue
> Kalamazoo, Michigan 49008-5120
>
>

-- 
Jeffrey S. Whitaker         Phone  : (303)497-6313
Meteorologist               FAX    : (303)497-6449
NOAA/OAR/CDC  R/CDC1        Email  : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
325 Broadway                Web    : www.cdc.noaa.gov/~jsw
Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-124



-------------------------------------------------------
This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek
Oh, it's good to be a geek.
http://thinkgeek.com/sf
_______________________________________________
Fink-beginners mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners

Reply via email to