Re: trying to understand what I am doing wrong

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002, Tjeerdsma, Greg wrote:
> 1.) I downloaded the email-valid 0.13 zip file from cpan (if I remember
...
> 5.) ran the perl makefile.pl as instructed
...
> makefile:642: *** missing separator.  Stop.
...
| Machine is a Gateway 9200 server with Windows NT 4.0 Server
| Make version 3.76.1

you are not doing anything wrong, nor is the make program.
The generated Makefile is wrong.

The problem lies somewhere around the lines 644-646 of the Makefile:

<TAB>
$(PM_TO_BLIB)
<<

So the right address to contact is the author of the module.
I'm forwarding this mail to his address, too.

The buggy generated Makefile is attached (zipped).

email-valid-0.14 has been released, you might try it.  But the changelog
doesn't seem to speak about the bug, so the issue is probably not fixed.

As a last resort, you might try to delete the offending three lines
above, so that make can parse the Makefile and do something.
But the behaviour of make is undefined in that case---it may as well
wipe your disk.

I suppose you'll get the answer from the module maintainer, who is the
only who understands.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan