On 8/28/07, via RT dakkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by dakkar > # Please include the string: [perl #45013] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=45013 > > > > I configured my parrot with: > > perl Configure.pl --prefix=/Users/dakkar/Perl6/ > > but I got this error: > > Generating makefiles and other build files... > step gen::makefiles died during execution: > config/gen/makefiles/root.in:26: line ends in a slash > > at Configure.pl line 336 > > I removed the '/' at the end of the value for the --prefix parameter, > and everything configured correctly. > > this is expected behavior. during configure, slashes may be inverted on windows, changing '/' to '\'. unfortunately, make sees '\' ending a line as a continuation character, leading to unexpected behavior. therefore '/' is not allowed as an end of line character.
however, the error message could use some help, because you didn't really know that it would be used in some file at the end of some line. we'll clear this up, thanks for reporting! ~jerry
