Sharif Oerton wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:47:13 Sharif Oerton wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm a bit further along this time, but >> >> make >> >> for Perl is failing, saying >> >> makefile:954: *** missing separator. Stop. >> >> I searched the mailing list archives, and most of the replies reference a >> FAQ entry that now seems to not exist. One reply suggested to check for the >> existence of /dev/null (or so I interpreted it) - >> >> ls /dev | grep null >> >> outputs >> >> null >> >> so the file is definitely there. Same for /dev/zero. >> >> Googling results in a forum post referencing the running of "MAKEDEV", but >> I can't remember reading anything about MAKEDEV previously - is it only >> used in older versions of LFS? >> >> My configuration command was >> >> ./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 >> -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dpager="/usr/bin/less -isR" >> >> Does anyone have any hints? >> >> Thanks a lot. >> >> Sharif >> > > Okay, I decided to have a look at the makefile and see if there was anything > obviously wrong, and I found that the makefile only has 953 lines - there's > no line 954, not even a newline character. Hopefully that will mean something > to someone. > > Thanks, > Sharif >
I had the missing separator problem. It turned out to be my /dev/null file was not setup correctly. Issue the following to test it. test -c /dev/null && echo Ok Ok If you do not get "OK" back, then something is wrong with /dev/null -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
