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RE: Can't run Make under Cygwin on Win2000
- To: <turner at uvs dot is>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Can't run Make under Cygwin on Win2000
- From: "Norman Vine" <nhv at cape dot com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:22:03 -0400
- Reply-To: <nhv at cape dot com>
turner@uvs.is writes:
>
>The subject says it all. When I run *any* Makefile I get this error:
>Makefile:644: *** missing separator. Stop
>
>This is wierd because the Makefiles in question have be auto
>generated by Perl during an install of some Perl modules.
This is usually caused by a bug in the Cygwin Perl port that
only exists on 'text' mounts.
The solution is to work only on 'binary' mounts.
This means '/' and drives containing source trees
Cheers
Norman
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