Re: Autoconf 2.49d test: Command not found

[John Poltorak]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:36:48AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:48:41PM +0000, John Poltorak wrote:
> > After setting a number of environment variables and running 
> > sh ./configure
> > followed by make I got the following error at the end:-
> ...
> > Making all in doc
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/eval/autoconf-2.49d/doc'
> > make[1]: :: Command not found
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/eval/autoconf-2.49d/doc'
> > make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > 
> > 
> > How do I find out which Command was not found ?
> 
> I would use "make -n" in the doc directory (the actual commands are echoed, 
> and
> does not necessarily halt with the one which is the immediate problem).  You
> will probably have to supply the various assignments to make it work (e.g.,
> "make prefix=foo -n").  In that case I get the invocation parameters from 
> using
> "make -n" in the parent directory.

This is what I got:-


[N:\eval\autoconf-2.49d\doc]make -n
:
cd . && rm -f autoconf.info autoconf.info-[0-9] autoconf.info-[0-9][0-9]
cd . \
  && makeinfo --no-split `echo autoconf.texi | sed 's,.*/,,'`


This seems to be as a result of attempting to build this target:-


.texi.info:
        @cd $(srcdir) && rm -f $@ address@hidden address@hidden
        cd $(srcdir) \
          && $(MAKEINFO) -hello `echo $< | sed 's,.*/,,'`


I have no idea how the ':' at the start comes into play.

 
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> Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
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-- 
John