Makefile, line 1: Badly formed macro assignment

[8uachaille]

me@myhost# git clone https://github.com/Rup0rt/pcapfix.git
Cloning into 'pcapfix'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 665, done.
remote: Total 665 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 665
Receiving objects: 100% (665/665), 272.77 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (438/438), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

me@myhost# make
make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 1: Badly formed macro assignment

me@myhost:/mydir# uname -a
SunOS fireworks 5.11 11.3 sun4v sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise-T5120

[Rup0rt]

I really have no clue how SunOS' make differs. Can you check the devel branch whether this error still exists?

[8uachaille]

HI, I got it to work on CentOS in the end and it repaired my file as I had hoped. Thanks very much for your work on this and for following-up.

[Rup0rt]

Hi,

glad to hear. Nevertheless it's bad that it does not compile on SunOS.

Maybe somebody else using SunOS can check it out?

[mdeweerd]

I worked a very long time ago in SunOS.
The Makefile in this project is for GNU Make, so one should use GNU make on SunOS as well.

It is possible to call GNU's make "gmake" through a link or possibly at compilation/build time. Then use "gmake".

Or, set the environment variable MAKE to the GNU Make executeable and use an alias or point make to GNU's make.

[Rup0rt]

Thank you for this information. So if I understand this right, it is not a bug? Adding a hint in the INSTALL file should be enough thou?

[mdeweerd]

IMHO it is not a bug - there are different flavors of Makefile's.
You can indicate that GNU Make and GNU-C/C++ is required.
make -v should show something similar to 'GNU Make 4.3' in its output.

[Rup0rt]

Great! I am going to add a note to INSTALL file. Thank you, mdeweerd.

[8uachaille]

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