It's likely that Solaris' make isn't happy. Try GNU make, which may already be installed as 'gmake' or you can get a fresh one from www.sunfreeware.com
Also, gmake is fully make compatible, and is a better make tool overall. Aaron On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, yu quannian wrote: > All.Now I encounter such a problem after I complish the installation of My > SQL Database for Solaris 2.8 . > After I unzip all DBMail file,I want to install DBMail Softwarre, I do like > this: > (1)[/home/sd/dbmail-1.1]./configure > then the output info like this: > > loading cache ./config.cache > This is dbmail's GNU configure script. > It's going to run a bunch of strange tests to hopefully > make your compile work without much twiddling. > checking for a BSD compatible install... buildtools/install-sh -c > checking whether build environment is sane... yes > checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes > checking for working aclocal... missing > checking for working autoconf... missing > checking for working automake... missing > checking for working autoheader... missing > checking for working makeinfo... missing > checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no > checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib > checking for gcc... (cached) gcc > checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes > checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no > checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes > checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes > checking for working const... (cached) yes > checking for inline... (cached) inline > creating ./config.status > creating Makefile > creating mysql/Makefile > creating pgsql/Makefile > (2),then I want to make the dbmail like this: > [/home/sd/dbmail-1.1]make > the Output is: > mksh: Fatal error in reader: = missing from replacement macro reference > Current working directory /export/home/sd/dbmail-1.1 > > > > All.I want to know what's the true reason.Could you give me a advice to > resolve such a phenomenon? > I am waiting for your sincere reply. > My Email Address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Best Regards! > >