[Info-vax] xmkmf and make

[GreyCloud]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <hrOdneIqGbAnidfQnZ2dnUVZ_rKdnZ2d at bresnan.com>, GreyCloud <cumulus at mist.com> writes:
>> I have some old X11/Motif source code with Imake files.
>> When I do xmkmf -a, the make program chokes on a line in then Makefile 
>> "MSimpleProgramTarget(program).
>> The error make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 535: Unexpected 
>> end of line seen.
> 
>    When I see this, it is generally trying to process one of the gmake
>    extensions to make, and some input, such as an environment variable
>    is not set, or some make file variable didn't get set along the
>    way.
> 
I did a lot of further digging and found that 
MSimpleProgramTarget(program) is being put in by
error from imake.  The error messages from make are rather cryptic.
Unexpected end of line is the key that really should say "Don't know 
what this is".
I find that there are no linux systems that work correctly along with 
Solaris 8 and 10.
Seems that the UNIX community has lost along the way the documentation 
on how they wrote
the templates and definition files.  Even wikipedia can't find the docs.

It was a good concept, but nothing was passed on from the originator it 
seems.


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