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

[Samuel S. <sm...@sa...>]

On Wednesday, August 7, 2002, at 02:27 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Justin C. Walker wrote:
> []
>>> ./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.
>
This case was an HFS+ partition
> 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.

so just change the name, move, /usr/local before running fink install?

I originally installed Xfree using the binary installer non fink. Could 
the binary installer have configured something
differently so the fink cvs installer won't work?

>
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