[Remind-Fans] problem bulding remind

aalinovi at riseup.net aalinovi at riseup.net
Wed May 1 09:35:59 EDT 2024


Thank you very much. Using GNU make as you suggested works.

Arthur

In message <ZjI-Q1Ce2qIPEwrV at t420>, Emanuele Torre writes:
>On Wed, May 01, 2024 at 08:39:39AM -0400, Arthur Alinovi via Remind-fans wrote:
>> *** Error 2 in rem2html (Makefile:25 'install': @if test "/usr/bin/perl" = "" ; then  echo "Not installing rem2html; Perl is required"; exit...)
>> *** Error 2 in /home/slaurel/Downloads/remind-04.03.07 (Makefile:23 'install': @make -C rem2html install)
>> /home/slaurel/Downloads/remind-04.03.07 $
>> 
>Hi!
>
>I think I know what the problem is: at line 75 of src/Makefile.in, there
>is a "fi" only prefixed by spaces which is probably unintentional.
>GNU make is fine with commands continued on multiple lines not starting
>with TAB after the first line, but evidently OpenBSD make is not as
>forgiving.
>
>https://git.skoll.ca/Skollsoft-Public/Remind/src/branch/master/src/Makefile.in#L75
>
>You can try compiling remind with GNU make if you have that available
>instead of using OpenBSD's make.



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