Re: [7.0b4] make bails for perl 5.8.8

On 27/12/2007, Anton Berezin <tobez_at_tobez.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 01:50:12PM +0000, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
> > On 27/12/2007, Anton Berezin <tobez_at_tobez.org> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 12:16:09PM +0000, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
> > >
> > > > Building perl 5.8.8 from tarball on amd64 (don't know about x86, don't
> > > > have a machine to test it with) with just ./Configure && make causes
> > > > make to bail out with:-
> > > >
> > > > "make: don't know how to make <command-line>. Stop"
> > >
> > > A little bit more detailed report would be helpful.
> >
> > Seems to be fixed in perl 5.10.0
>
> Please don't say "fixed" since there is at least a 95% chance it was an
> operator error to begin with...

It definitely wasn't luser error:-

> uname -a
FreeBSD osiris.hybrid-lab.net 7.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 #0: Sun Dec
2 16:34:41 UTC 2007
root_at_myers.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> pwd
/home/im1/perl-5.8.8
> fgrep -r "<command-line>" *
> ./Configure -de >&perl-5.8.8-configure.log
> fgrep -r "<command-line>" *
makefile:av$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:scope$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:op$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:doop$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:doio$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:dump$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:hv$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:mg$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:reentr$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:perl$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:perly$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:pp$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:pp_hot$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:pp_ctl$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:pp_sys$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:regcomp$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:regexec$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:utf8$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:gv$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:sv$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:taint$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:toke$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:util$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:deb$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:run$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:universal$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:xsutils$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:pad$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:globals$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:perlio$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:perlapi$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:numeric$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:locale$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:pp_pack$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:pp_sort$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:miniperlmain$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:perlmain$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
makefile:opmini$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
x2p/makefile:hash$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
x2p/makefile:str$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
x2p/makefile:util$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
x2p/makefile:walk$(OBJ_EXT): <command-line>
> make
make: don't know how to make <command-line>. Stop

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> pwd
/home/im1/perl-5.10.0
> fgrep -r "<command-line>" *
Changes:	     to have switched from '<command line>' to '<command-line>'.
makedepend.SH:            -e '/^#.*<command-line>/d' \
> ./Configure -de>&perl-5.10.0-configure.log
> fgrep -r "<command-line>" *
Changes:	     to have switched from '<command line>' to '<command-line>'.
makedepend:            -e '/^#.*<command-line>/d' \
makedepend.SH:            -e '/^#.*<command-line>/d' \
> make
...

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So, yes, it has been *fixed*! :-/


Igor