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bash-2.01$ make
"makefile", line 500​: make​: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
colon operator.
"makefile", line 501​: make​: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
colon operator.
"makefile", line 502​: make​: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
colon operator.
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.
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"makefile", line 557​: make​: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
colon operator.
make​: 1254-058 Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue.

Here is the myconfig output​:

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=aix, osvers=4.3.1.0, archname=aix
  uname='aix ocho 3 4 000068654c00 '
  hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cc', optimize='-O', gccversion=
  cppflags='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=8192'
  ccflags ='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=8192'
  stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8
  alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='ld', ldflags =''
  libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
  libs=-lnsl -ldbm -ldl -lld -lm -lc -lcrypt -lbsd -lPW
  libc=/lib/libc.a, so=a, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_aix.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-bE​:perl.exp'
  cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-bhalt​:4 -bM​:SRE -bI​:$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp
-bE​:$(BASEEXT).exp -b noentry -lc'

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

Actually I got the make to work for some reason there was about 30 or so
lines of .. in the makefile. I was trying to install the latest stable
version of perl but then downgraded to the previous stable version​:
perl5.004_05.

I ran make test and got​:

Failed 21 test scripts out of 164, 84.15% okay.
  ### Since not all tests were successful, you may want to run some
  ### of them individually and examine any diagnostic messages they
  ### produce. See the INSTALL document's section on "make test".
  ###
  ### Since most tests were successful, you have a good chance to
  ### get information with better granularity by running
  ### ./perl harness
  ### in directory ./t.
u=0.31 s=1.35 cu=10.46 cs=15.57 scripts=140 tests=4743
make​: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

The errors all look like​:

at ./lib/posix.t line 13
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./lib/posix.t line 13.
FAILED at test 0
lib/safe1.........Can't load '../lib/auto/Opcode/Opcode.so' for module
Opcode​: readExports​: bad magic at ../lib/DynaLoader.pm line 169.
So I ran ./perl harness as suggested in the t dir and got​:

bash-2.01$ ./perl harness
Can't load '../lib/auto/IO/IO.so' for module IO​: readExports​: bad magic at
../lib/DynaLoader.pm line 169.

at ../lib/IO/Handle.pm line 248
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../lib/IO/Seekable.pm line 50.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../lib/IO/File.pm line 111.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../lib/Test/Harness.pm line 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at harness line 13.

What is this 'bad magic' thing?

I am trying to install it into my home directory and not in /usr/local.

TIA

Jason

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, TPN Support wrote​:

I got the following errors when trying to run make​:

bash-2.01$ make
"makefile", line 500​: make​: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
colon operator.
"makefile", line 501​: make​: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
colon operator.
"makefile", line 502​: make​: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
colon operator.

Could you please tell us exactly what version of perl you are trying
and also just what *is* on lines 500, 501, and 502 of makefile? (The
makefile generated can be slightly differenton different systems, so I
don't know what the problem is.)

Thanks,

Andy Dougherty doughera@​lafayette.edu
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042

From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 12​:07​:14PM -0700, TPN Support wrote​:

I got the following errors when trying to run make​:

bash-2.01$ make
"makefile", line 500​: make​: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
colon operator.
"makefile", line 501​: make​: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
colon operator.
"makefile", line 502​: make​: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
colon operator.

  Could you please re-post, including the output of the `myconfig'
program in your Perl build directory?

  Peace,
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