On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:47:13 Sharif Oerton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a bit further along this time, but
>
> make
>
> for Perl is failing, saying
>
> makefile:954: *** missing separator. Stop.
>
> I searched the mailing list archives, and most of the replies reference a
> FAQ entry that now seems to not exist. One reply suggested to check for the
> existence of /dev/null (or so I interpreted it) -
>
> ls /dev | grep null
>
> outputs
>
> null
>
> so the file is definitely there. Same for /dev/zero.
>
> Googling results in a forum post referencing the running of "MAKEDEV", but
> I can't remember reading anything about MAKEDEV previously - is it only
> used in older versions of LFS?
>
> My configuration command was
>
> ./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1
> -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR"
>
> Does anyone have any hints?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Sharif

Okay, I decided to have a look at the makefile and see if there was anything 
obviously wrong, and I found that the makefile only has 953 lines - there's 
no line 954, not even a newline character. Hopefully that will mean something 
to someone. 

Thanks,
Sharif

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