Thanks Darren,
But I've already fixed it by relatively drastic means!
Thanks anyhow for the explanation. Its nice to know why things go wrong.
I also wonder why its in the repository when its built by automake.
I must try and remember your suggestion in case something similar
occurs again.
Roger
On 20/01/2008, at 12:24 AM, Darren Freeman wrote:
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 09:38 +1100, Roger Mc Murtrie wrote:
lib/doc/Makefile.depend:21: bad characters in variable name `'
Roger,
this is the same problem I had. There was a svn conflict introduced
because Makefile.depend is regenerated by automake but it is also in
the
repository (somebody tell me why this should be in the repository
then,
since automake is mandatory for an svn build?).
There must have been one change that caused a local modification of
this
file, which was not committed at the time of the change, followed by
another change recently in the svn repository that conflicts with the
existing change.
Try "svn revert lib/doc/Makefile.depend" and build it again. Don't
bother with "make clean" or anything like that.
Have fun,
Darren
