Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 13:43:18 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
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Subject: Re: make crash
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On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Martin Str|mberg wrote:

> While trying to build tar from tar112s.zip I found out that make
> promptly crashes:
> 
> bash$ make
> make all-recursive
> make.exe[1]: Entering directory `f:/hackery/libc/tar/gnu/tar-1.12'
> g:/dj100000: g:/dj100000: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> Abort!
> Exiting due to signal SIGABRT

I cannot reproduce this on Windows 95.  I just tried.

Which Bash is that, btw?  I tried 1.14.7; if you use anything else,
the problem might be in Bash (see that syntax error before the
Abort?).

Also, did you compile Make by yourself, or is that the original binary
from mak377b.zip?