Sorry - I should have read the whole thread before replying.  I'm
mystified by this one.

-Jeff

On Fri, 31 May 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Jean-François Mertens wrote:

>
> On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 05:55 , Jeff Whitaker wrote:
>
> > I bet you are trying to build xfree on a UFS partition.  This is
> > currently
> > impossible - you have to either build it on HFS+ or install the binary
> > package.
> >
> > -Jeff
> >
> >  On Fri, 31 May 2002, scmarcos wrote:
> >
> >> At 4:28 PM +0200 5/31/02, Jean-François Mertens wrote:
>
> >>> 3) Clobbered Makefiles generated by imake (one contiguous block with
> >>> length an
> >>> exact multiple of 1024 bytes replaced by junk of exactly the same
> >>> length, seeming
> >>> to come from an intermediate form of what the final Makefile should
> >>> be) typically
> >>> generate such 'Missing Separator' messages, and are the typical
> >>> problem of trying
> >>> to build xfree86-base on UFS.
> >>> If you're building on UFS _ you should have told it _, then build
> >>> xfree86-base on a
> >>> different HFS+ partition _ until Apple fixes its system...
> >>
> >> No UFS, just plain old vanilla HFS+
> >>
>
> Jeff, the reason I wasn't sure in this case, and just asked the question
> as 3d, is that on UFS
> this trouble happens typically only with a ('random') couple of
> Makefiles among the hundreds that are
> generated _ hence in quite unlikely to occur at the very first one. And
> in addition, he had the
> same problem before, in the first Makefile generated in libxpm _ where I
> never heard of any problem.
>
> Jean-Francois
>
>

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