Hi, On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 01:29:51AM +1000, Craig Dewick wrote: > Recently I have obtained a used Microtek Scanmaker-III SCSI scanner and > I'm in the process of building and installing all the software needed to > do useful work with it. 8-)
You forgot the most important part: GNU make :-) See README. > make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 340: Unexpected end of line seen > Current working directory /azwan/sane-backends-1.0.7/backend > *** Error code 1 > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' This doesn't look like GNU make... > ifneq ($(DLL_PRELOAD),) > I am guessing this is a simple Makefile syntax issue, but it could mean > that the configure script has a problem that's resulting in the Makefile > being created as shown, which is causing the error message shown above. > > What needs to be done to fix up the Makefile? Is the 'ifneq' statement > actually valid in a makefile? What's wrong with it? I'm guessing the > comma might be spurious, but I could be wrong. The line is ok but some non-GNU make programs don't seem to like it. If you habe gmake, try "make=gmake ./configure" and "gmake". Bye, Henning
