[erlang-questions] otp_src_R13B and opensolaris 2008.11

[Toby Thain]

On 31-May-09, at 9:06 AM, Anthony Kong wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> I am attempting to build the said erlang source tarball on opensolaris
> (2008.11)
>
> The uname output of this version of solaris is: SunOS wsos02 5.11  
> snv_101b
> i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
>
> After running configure, I tried to run make and got this message
> immediately:
>
>
> "make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 94: Badly formed macro
> assignment"
>
> At the line 94, it is just
>
> export TARGET   = i386-pc-solaris2.11

On Solaris 10, you'd typically have to make sure you were using GNU  
make (gmake) and bash. Not sure about OpenSolaris, but try  
'gmake' (which on Solaris 10 is in /usr/sfw/bin).

--Toby

>
>
> I have searched the mailing list and none seems to have this  
> problem...
>
> Could it be an autoconf out of date issue?
>
> Cheers, Anthony