Re: Build failure

[Nicolas Sceaux]

Erlend Aasland <address@hidden> writes:

> Replying to myself here. This problem went away when I downgraded to GNU
> Make 3.79.1.
>
> On 1/25/06, Erlend Aasland <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> The last couple of days I've been unable to build from CVS (on MacOSX (
>> 10.4.3)). The build stops here:
>>
>> /Users/erlend/src/lilypond-eaa/stepmake/stepmake/executable-rules.make:6:
>> *** missing separator.  Stop.
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> Perhaps this can be helpful:
>> $ make --version
>> GNU Make 3.80

GNU make 3.80 seems to be more strict about newlines that have to be
escaped. The problem is solved with the following patch: 

Index: executable-rules.make
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/lilypond/lilypond/stepmake/stepmake/executable-rules.make,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 executable-rules.make
--- executable-rules.make       23 Jan 2006 21:06:28 -0000      1.6
+++ executable-rules.make       27 Jan 2006 17:40:57 -0000
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
-define MODULE_LIB_template
-$(1)/$(outdir)/library.a :
-       $(MAKE) -C $(1)
+define MODULE_LIB_template \
+$(1)/$(outdir)/library.a : \
+       $(MAKE) -C $(1)    
 endef
 
 $(foreach a, $(MODULE_LIBS), $(eval $(call MODULE_LIB_template,$(a))))