-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin Costabel wrote: > Alexander K. Hansen wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> Silencium Sixty-Eight wrote: >>> Hello Benjamin, >>> >>> I'm trying to setup the fink package "net-snmp-unified-5.4.1-1" >>> on my MacOS X 10.5 box; unfortunately it fails to succeed with >>> the following error message: >>> >>> making all in >>> /usr/local/src/fink.build/net-snmp-unified-5.4.1-1/net- >>> snmp-5.4.1/agent Makefile:218: *** commands commence before >>> first target. Stop. >>> >>> When investigating the agent's Makefile I discovered that the >>> trailing backslashed in the "mibgroup_list_lo", >>> "mibgroup_list_o", "agentgroup_list_lo" and >>> "agentgroup_list_o" definitions where missing. >>> >>> After adding them I could compile the agent, but another error >>> occured with the mibgroup Makefile (just the same, missing >>> trailing "\"). >>> >>> Cheers, Martin >>> >> I would be curious whether other people on Leopard see the same >> issue. The package built properly for me on Tiger. > > On Leopard/ppc I don't see it. > > Those Makefiles are constructed by a complicated recursive > procedure in configure, using low-level text processing tools like > 'sed' and 'echo'. > > I would suspect first 'sed'. If a sed from Fink is installed, or > another one is on the PATH except /usr/bin/sed, I would remove it > and see if this changes anything. > > The second suspect would be 'echo'. I see that the configure script > of net-snmp now has a tricky check whether 'echo' understands the > -n or \c options. Good thing, in principle, seeing that Leopard has > several versions of echo that behave differently. But this check > does not seem to work correctly. In my case this didn't matter, but > it could be different in other situations. > > I say it doesn't work correctly, because the result of the test is > a nonsensical line > > ECHO_C='ECHO_N='' > > in config.log. A LF character got lost somewhere between configure > and config.log. Maybe the finally chosen 'echo' or $(ECHO) does not > understand configure's wish to output backslashes. > It looks to have built OK with fink's sed on 10.4, too. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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