Re: Error descriptions

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello kababu,

* novice 123 wrote on Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:46:40AM CEST:
> I am trying to build archives using automake.
> However, after configuring ,and while executing "make" ,
> I am encountering the following error.
> 
>          "<command-line>: error: macro names must be identifiers"

The error message comes from the compiler, not from automake.
I can reproduce it with code that looks like this:
  #ifdef #foo
  #endif

or command lines that look like this:
  gcc -c -D'#foo'

so maybe you have this somewhere, or the build system generates
something like that?

Cheers,
Ralf