I remember back in '98 when Feiste wrote:
> I'm a newbie to Linux. I have Redhat 5.1 and Xfree86 up and
> running on one machine at home. I don't quite feel comfortable with
> it yet though. I've been able to compile simple C programs, but
> my makefiles which work on AIX (IBM's unix) don't seem to work
> (even though gnumake works on the RS/6000).
There are incompatabilities among various versions of make. You
might consider also trying pmake to see if that works. Also,
if you've transferred the files using a floppy, the Makefile
may be in DOS CR/LF format instead of UNIX LF (or is that CR..)
This has also happened to me using mime-encoded attachments
and .zip files (need the -a flag, I think)
The extra CR (or LF?) really seems to confuse make, and you
get really cryptic messages . . . The solution is to either
pass the files through a dos->unix text filter or use some
program like unzip or ftp can can automagically do
the conversion for you.
Matt
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