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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:40:21 -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 12:22:03PM -0400, Norman Vine wrote:
>turner AT uvs DOT 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

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