[Info-vax] Building Perl on VAX

[hb]

On 7/13/19 7:17 PM, Daniel Sundqvist wrote:
> Yeah it feels more and more like it's a bug in MMK. I'm using MMK-5.0 wich does not seem that stable. Had to fix a bug to make it work in the first place. Maybe could try 4.1 if I find the source for it.
> 
> Can't seem to find the flag for more verbose output of MMK
> 
...
> %MMK-F-CANTUPD, cannot update target : - sources unknown

MMK tells you the target, for which the sources are unknown: ":".
Just like in

$ mmk /descrip=tt:
all : :
	! done
^Z
%MMK-F-CANTUPD, cannot update target : - sources unknown
$

Not knowing anything about building Perl, this can be a problem in a
dynamically generated makefile (.mms file) or in an expansion of an
MMS/MMK macro. So it may not be easy to spot. It may be a problem in
MMK, but the probability is low.

MMS will print a different error message, which points you to the right
spot:
$ mms /descrip=tt:
all : :


        all : :
%MMS-W-DRVPARSERR, Parser error: "syntax error" in file
_FTA156:[USER]DESCRIP.MMS;, line 1.
%MMS-F-DRVBADPARSE, Parser detected a fatal syntax error in the
description file.
$

On the other hand, it would be nice to know what the problem was, to get
MMK 5.0 working - and how you fixed it.