Re: "make" fails in backend. Help!

From: Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 14 2000 - 01:44:05 PST

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    Bruce Burden wrote:
    >
    > Hi folks,
    >
    > I have sane-1.0.1 installed, and am having a problem when the
    > Makefile attempts to build the backend. Here is the error:
    >
    > bash-2.03# make
    > for subdir in lib sanei backend frontend doc tools; do target=`echo
    > all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; echo making $target in $subdir;
    > (cd $subdir && make $target) || case " " in *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;;
    > esac; done && test -z "$fail"
    > making all in lib
    > making all in sanei
    > making all in backend
    > Error expanding embedded variable.
    > *** Error code 1
    >
    > Any clues how to find out which embedded variable is the
    > problem? I have run make with the various debug options, and nothing
    > obvious appears. And, yes, this is a makefile issue, because I
    > get the same error message when I attempt a "make clean".
    >
    > I am running FreeBSD, -current build of 1/1/2000. I have
    > (successfully) installed glib-1.2.6, gtk+-1.2.6 and gimp-1.0.4.

    Install and use gmake instead of make.

    Cheers,

    Ben. 

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