Re: [glean-dev] Makefile problems?

[Adam H. <ad...@ne...>]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 11:23:00AM -0800, ak...@po... wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 11:09:07AM -0800, Adam Haberlach wrote:
> | When I do makes, I get a lot of the following error:
> | 
> | /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
> | /bin/sh: -c: line 1: `for d in ; do (cd $d; /bin/make all); done '
> | make: *** [all_dirs] Error 2
> | 
> | In fact, I seem to get it for every directory--am I the only one (it could
> | be a BeOS thing)?  I don't seem to be enough of a makefile wizard to fix this
> | myself.
> 
> Are you using GNU make?  The Linux Makefiles depend on several
> features of GNU make, so that might be the cause of some of your
> problems.  Otherwise, the only thing that occurs to me is that the
> GLEAN_ROOT environment variable might not be set correctly.

chumbucket:/boot/home:make -v
GNU Make version 3.77, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.

I may look into doing a bit of major work on the Makefiles--I mainly
wanted to see if there were any major Make gurus out there.

-- 
Adam Haberlach             |"No, no. I never drink. Well, perhaps a very small
ad...@ne...        | single-malt scotch--neat."
http://www.newsnipple.com/ | Jean-Luis Gasse, Red Herring, December 1996