Re: Frustrated Building CVS on Tru64 UNIX ver 5.1a

[Larry Jones]

Eric Siegerman writes:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:27:04PM -0800, Terry Spafford wrote:
> > # FIXME - this path should be determined dynamically from bindir
> > #: No such file or directory
> 
> Your shell doesn't understand "#" comments?  That FIXME line
> occurs in contrib/Makefile (the ultimate source being
> contrib/Makefile.am).  Just nuke it.

Some versions of make don't bother using a shell to execute the
commands, they parse them themselves and call exec() directly.  In the
current development version of CVS, those lines have been modified to
start with "##" so they get deleted by automake rather than being copied
into Makefile.in and then Makefile, so nuking them is appropriate.  I
think the same problem also occurs in the doc subdirectory.

-Larry Jones

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