Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 11:28:54 +0200 From: "Eli Zaretskii" Sender: halo1 AT zahav DOT net DOT il To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Message-Id: <4634-Sat09Aug2003112853+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: (message from Monika Hendricks on 8 Aug 2003 15:59:57 GMT) Subject: Re: [grx245]installation problems References: <7263-Fri08Aug2003101530+0300-eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il> <3791-Fri08Aug2003181106+0300-eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il> Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk > From: Monika Hendricks > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp > Date: 8 Aug 2003 15:59:57 GMT > > > > One possible problem might be that it does a "make clean" for some > > reason. I don't have the makefile in front of me, but it strikes > > me as something weird to do when building a library. > > Possibly it wants to make sure to have no files from older versions > before installing new ones? It doesn't make sense, IMHO: the whole purpose of the Make utility is to prevent unnecessary recompilation. So it should have left the existing object files, at least in principle. > C:\DJGPP\contrib\grx245>make -f makefile.dj2 libs > c:/djgpp/bin/make.exe -C src -f makefile.dj2 > make.exe[1]: Entering directory `c:/DJGPP/contrib/grx245/src' > makefile.dj2:123: *** missing separator. Stop. > make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `c:/DJGPP/contrib/grx245/src' > make.exe: *** [libs] Error 2 As Sinan explained, the first character on the line where you added the `-' character should be a TAB, not a space.