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Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:38:36 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Can't run Make under cygwin on Win2000
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:15:44PM -0400, John Peacock wrote:
>turner AT uvs DOT is wrote:
>> 
>> The subject says it all. When I run *any* Makefile I get this error:
>> Makefile:644: *** missing separator. Stop
>> 
>> This is wierd because the Makefiles in question have be auto generated by
>> Perl during an install of some Perl modules.
>> 
>> I really need this to work since I will be doing a lot of Perl development
>> on my Win2000 box.
>
>Are you using 'textmode' drive mounts or 'binmode' drive mapping?  If 
>the former, you should be using the latter.

This is incorrect.  Make.exe should not care about binmode/textmode issues.

If it does then that's a bug.

cgf

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