On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Malay HALDER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *hello maintainers, > i am trying to build findutils-4.2.31 on a > solaris-10 workstation. the build is failing with the below messges:-* > > *my makefile is doing as below:* [...] > > /users/toolsrd/ws/si_ctoolrd/findutils/production/sources/findutils-4.2.31/configure > \ > > --prefix=/tools/openbin/findutils/4.2.31/sparc-sun-solaris10 \ > @touch configured-findutils [...] > configure: WARNING: invalid host type: @touch
Your makefile (not the findutils makefile) appears to have an error. @ in the sense you are using it is a directive to Make (indicating that the command should not be echoed before it is run), so if you need to use it, it should occur at the beginning of the command make is executing. In your case however, the @ appears in the middle of the command line that make uses to invoke configure. You probably just misplaced the "\". The README and INSTALL files accompanying the findutils distribution explain how to configure and install findutils. James.
