Re: [Fink-users] Error when building xFree 86 with cvs in freek

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

Justin C. Walker wrote:
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>> ./config/imake/imake -I./config/cf  -s 
>> ./config/makedepend/Makefile.proto -f ./config/makedepend/Imakefile 
>> -DTOPDIR=../.. -DCURDIR=./config/makedepend
>> cd ./config/makedepend && rm -f -r Makefile Makefile.dep makedepend 
>> *.o bootstrap
>> cd ./config/makedepend && /usr/bin/gnumake -f Makefile.proto bootstrap
>> Makefile.proto:1: warning: NUL character seen; rest of line ignored
>> Makefile.proto:2: warning: NUL character seen; rest of line ignored
>> Makefile.proto:2: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> 
> 
> Looks like a problem with Makefile.proto.  Check to make sure it isn't 
> corrupted.

Makefile.proto has just been created by imake which has just been 
compiled before. Makefile.proto is obviously corrupted, but why?

This has come up a couple of times in the past, and AFAIK no solution 
was found. One situation where such things were observed in a random way 
  was compiling XFree86 on an UFS partition. But it has been observed on 
HFS+, too.

Otherwise imake is such a complicated system depending on a lot of 
config files and system components that this seems impossible to debug.

One standard advice would be to move /usr/local out of the way while 
compiling so that no nonstandard binary, header or library from there 
can interfere.

-- 
Martin