Hi,after reviewing the problem and some research, this seems to me to be an issue caused by problems inherent to those versions of dpkg and debconf, as the build problems occur with plain vanilla make 3.81, too; on the other hand, debian has been using make 3.81 for a long time now without any issues, but of course combined with newer versions of "dpkg" and "debconf".
As such, the best would be to just patch those two packages to always use /usr/bin/make. For dpkg this already happened. For debconf, I am attaching a patch which the maintainer hopefully will incorporate.
Cheers, Max Am 25.06.2007 um 19:51 schrieb Martin Costabel:
Alexander Hansen wrote: []Backslash found where operator expected at -e line 2, near ""# ThisI get the same error when running fink selfupdate, while the new dpkg tries to build:expand /sw/src/fink.build/dpkg-1.10.21-1224/dpkg-1.10.21/archtable | \ perl -ne 'print " { \"$1\",$2\"$3\",$4\"$5\" },\n" \ if m/^(?!\s*#)\s*(\S+)(\s+)(\S+)(\s+)(\S+)\s*$/' \ >archtable.hBackslash found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "" { \"$1\",$2\"$3\",$4\"$5\" },\n" \"(Missing operator before \?)syntax error at -e line 1, near "" { \"$1\",$2\"$3\",$4\"$5\" }, \n" \"Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. [...] Failed: phase compiling: dpkg-1.10.21-1224 failedThe culprit is Fink's new version of make (maintainer CCed). With make-3.79.1-3 or with /usr/bin/make, i.e. with Fink's make removed, there is no error. With make-3.81-1, the above failure occurs.It appears that there has been an incompatible syntax change that breaks building debconf and dpkg.-- Martin
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