Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:40:21 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't run Make under cygwin on Win2000 Message-ID: <20011016124021.B24921@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <001b01c1565e$b166bf60$a300a8c0@nhv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001b01c1565e$b166bf60$a300a8c0@nhv> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:22:03PM -0400, Norman Vine wrote: >turner@uvs.is writes: >> >>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. > > >This is usually caused by a bug in the Cygwin Perl port that >only exists on 'text' mounts. I fixed this problem with make long ago just like we did for ash, gawk, sed, etc. It would be useful to see the line in question before assuming that this is a textmode/binmode issue. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/