From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: Problem with make: unexpected EOF while looking for ``'
Date:	Sun, 13 Feb 2000 16:20:08 +0200
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Harri Tuomela wrote:

> bash$ make
> c:/Windows/Temp/dj810000: unexpected EOF while looking for ``'
> c:/Windows/Temp/dj810000: c:/Windows/Temp/dj810000: line 2: syntax error
> Abort!
> Exiting due to signal SIGABRT
> Raised at eip=0001eaaf

This is a tell-tale symptom of an old port of Make trying to execute a 
command that requires a Unixy shell, on a system where Make cannot find 
Bash, or with Makefile which doesn't instruct Make to use Bash.

The solution is a two-step dance:

  Step 1: upgrade to the latest port of Make (v2gnu/mak3781b.zip).

This will cause Make to print an error message instead of aborting with 
SIGABRT.  To have the problem solved entirely, you need

  Step 2: put a line "SHELL = /bin/sh" somewhere in your Makefile.in (or 
          Makefile.am, as the case may be).

For more about this subtlety, read the file README.DOS in the Make 
distribution, where it discusses the "SHELL = /bin/sh" issue.

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