Hello,
I recently built fileutils on an rs6000-ibm-aix machine, and had a weird
problem:
I did
./configure --prefix=$HOME/pub
gmake
everything made OK, the executables were born, happy happy. Then, when I
ran gmake check (or any susequent make command), gmake returned the
following error in the lib/ directory:
.deps/__fpending.Po:1: *** multiple target patterns. Stop.
and in the src/ directory,
.deps/chgrp.Po:1: *** multiple target patterns. Stop.
The files all looked pretty much the same; here is __fpending.Po
__fpending.o : \
__fpending.c ../config.h __fpending.h /usr/include/stdio.h
/usr/include/standards.h /usr/include/va_list.h /usr/include/sys/types.h
/usr/include/sys/inttypes.h /usr/include/sys/m_types.h
/usr/include/sys/vm_types.h /usr/include/sys/limits.h
/usr/include/float.h __fpending.c :
../config.h :
__fpending.h :
/usr/include/stdio.h :
/usr/include/standards.h :
/usr/include/va_list.h :
/usr/include/sys/types.h :
/usr/include/sys/inttypes.h :
/usr/include/sys/m_types.h :
/usr/include/sys/vm_types.h :
/usr/include/sys/limits.h :
/usr/include/float.h :
lib/.deps/__fpending.Po
I think the problem is the first line,
"__fpending.o: \^J __fpending.c [...] __fpending.c :"
The two colons are making make sad. Should there be a newline in there
somewhere? Perhaps after the first fpending.c?
I fixed the error by chopping out all references to $(DEPDIR)/anything.Po:
In lib/Makefile, I changed (circa line 214 for me) the line
DEP_FILES = $(DEPDIR)/__fpending.Po $(DEPDIR)/addext$U.Po \
$(DEPDIR)/alloca.Po $(DEPDIR)/argmatch$U.Po $(DEPDIR)/atexit.Po \
... many more lines
$(DEPDIR)/xstrtoumax$U.Po $(DEPDIR)/yesno$U.Po
to simply read
DEP_FILES =
and removed all the lines (starting circa line 574) that read
include $(DEPDIR)/__fpending.Po
include $(DEPDIR)/addext$U.Po
include $(DEPDIR)/alloca.Po
... many more lines
include $(DEPDIR)/xstrtoumax$U.Po
include $(DEPDIR)/yesno$U.Po
and similarly changed src/Makefile.
I know this is crude butchery, but it Worked For Me. Any idea why this
happened? Where are the .deps/*.Po files generated? Anyone else have
problems on AIX? I got my junk working, but I'd be glad to look for a fix
and submit a patch if y'all can suggest things to try.
flip
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