Amanda-Users

Re: Problems building 2.5 B2

2006-02-23 22:46:06
Subject: Re: Problems building 2.5 B2
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda users list <amanda-users AT amanda DOT org>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:38:16 -0500
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 07:24:34PM -0500, stan wrote:
> I'm trying to compile 2.5 beta 2 on Solaris 10 X86. The build is failing in
> the man subdirectory. It's complaining about this line in the generated
> Makefile:
> 

The actual complaint is often a big help to those answering.

> 
> $(man_MANS): %: $(MANPAGEDIR)/%.proc.xml xslt/man.xsl
>         $(XSLTPROC) --path xslt/ --output $@ man.xsl $<
> 
> Now, it's been a while since I wrote Makefiles, but I must admit that I
> don't undrstand rh %: myself.

I don't either.  Doesn't look right to me.

You could try that old standby, vi, and edit it out of there.
If it makes the manpages and completes, it probably was extraneous.

> 
> Anyone know what's _suuposed_ to be there? Did something go awry in the
> auto build of this Makefile?

A few years ago a makefile creation bug creapt into amanda whereby
a newline was omitted.  Maybe something trivial like that.

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