Hi Tom, glad I could help! Cheers, Shin On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Tom Rindborg <Tom.Rindborg@fatburen.org>wrote:
Hi Shin,
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010, Shin Sterneck wrote:
this is related to a known bug for emacs 23.1 and gcc version higher than 4.2.2 (reference is appended below)
The ./configure script apparently converts mutli-lined variables escaped with "\" to real new lines instead of taking them over as one variable, thus braking the make file and resulting in make to throw an exception due to the fact that it expects a target and not some variable content (which it thinks are commands).
You have two solutions to this:
1. append "CPPFLAGS=-P" to the configure script or set it as environment variable, instructing ./configure to handle "\" for new lines as-is and not converting them. 2. use emacs version 23.2, the initial patch reported to this problem was implemented upstream.
Emacs 23.2 is out since may this year and I was able to confirm that it builds correctly. You may want to use this version. Anyhow the pre-processor flag -P also works (man cpp), which would mean that you can build it without adjusting the Pkgfile.
Hope this helped.
Absolutely! Fascinating how you learn something new everyday, I wasn't aware of the -P cpp option, but it certainly helped.
Unless I absolutely need something from the bleeding edge versions of software I tend to stay with what's in the distro repository, so I'll stay with 23.1 for now.
Thanks a lot for saving me a couple of hours of boring debugging! :-) -- Hälsningar/Best regards, Tom ________________________________________________________________________ Tom Rindborg Phone: +46-8-599 984 40 Stockholm, Sweden MailTo:Tom.Rindborg@fatburen.org "If you have to hate, hate gently."