Sharif Oerton wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:47:13 Sharif Oerton wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm a bit further along this time, but >> >> make >> >> for Perl is failing, saying >> >> makefile:954: *** missing separator. Stop. >> >> I searched the mailing list archives, and most of the replies reference a >> FAQ entry that now seems to not exist. One reply suggested to check for the >> existence of /dev/null (or so I interpreted it) - >> >> ls /dev | grep null >> >> outputs >> >> null >> >> so the file is definitely there. Same for /dev/zero. >> >> Googling results in a forum post referencing the running of "MAKEDEV", but >> I can't remember reading anything about MAKEDEV previously - is it only >> used in older versions of LFS? >> >> My configuration command was >> >> ./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 >> -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR" >> >> Does anyone have any hints? >> >> Thanks a lot. >> >> Sharif > > Okay, I decided to have a look at the makefile and see if there was anything > obviously wrong, and I found that the makefile only has 953 lines - there's > no line 954, not even a newline character. Hopefully that will mean something > to someone.
To me it does. Long ago, I used to see this in various files, usually make files. Never knew for sure what caused it, but I would recreate or edit the files and make sure there were no MS-DOS style lines and the missing line number and error would disappear. I don't know if this is your problem or not. IIRC, there's some kind of dos2unix utils that will replace CR/LF combos with the unix-style LF. Maybe that will help? In VI, you can do a ":1,$l" (that's a lower case "L" at the end) and it should show any odd characters at the end. Or you can use "od" to see it. It's default is octal, so you might want to "man od" to select an option that is more "user friendly"! BWAHAHAHAH :-> > > Thanks, > Sharif > HTH -- Wit -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
