Re: Makefile error

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Russell Suter (russell++at++ctasim.com)
Mon, 30 Dec 1996 11:24:43 -0700

On Dec 18, 7:19pm, Mahmoud M.Rashad Halfawy wrote:
> Subject: Makefile error
> Hello everybody:
>
> Many times when I try to make a legitimate Makefile that includes the
> commondefs file, I get the following message:
>
> /usr/include/make/commondefs:793: *** missing separator. Stop.
>
> However, I can make the same file when I'm logged in as root.
> I appreciate if anyone would help me to know what is worng. I'm using Onyx
and
> IRIX 6.2
>
>
> Thanks,
> Mahmoud.
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>-- End of excerpt from Mahmoud M.Rashad Halfawy

Hey Mahmoud,

I don't know if you have had a response to this yet but I had the same
problem. What I found it to be was that my PATH environment variable
was finding gnu make before the /sbin/make. I changed the order in
my PATH and set an alias for gnu make.

Hope this helps...

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Russ
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