fatal error while compiling GRASS

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Liz Kramer (liz@sparc.ecology.uga.edu) writes on 17 Nov 93:

From: Darrell McCauley <mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu>
To: liz@sparc.ecology.uga.edu
Liz Kramer (liz%beasley@sparc.ecology.uga.edu) writes on 17 Nov 93:

hi, I'm in the process of compiling GRASS on a sun sparc 2 running sun
4.1.3 I have a fatal error in the GISGEN program: make: Fatal error: Don't
know how to make target `OBJ/view.oOBJ/whoami.o'

                                 ^^^ missing a space.

GISGEN failure at STEP: src/libes/gis

grassp-list@moon.cecer.army.mil. Also, you might check
src/libes/gis/Gmakefile and see if something looks unusual
around view.o and whoami.o.

I checked the soruce code and nothing seems strange to me. Here is the head
file that I am using for the compilation.

the head looks okay, but there must be something funny in
the Gmakefile (the lack of a space).

in src/libes/gis/Gmakefile, I find:

    unctrl.o\
    view.o\
    whoami.o\
    wind_2_box.o\

If you change this to (completely re-typing all four lines)

    unctrl.o\
    wind_2_box.o\
    view.o\
    whoami.o\

I wonder if you get the error
"know how to make target `OBJ/wind_2_box.oOBJ/view.o'"
or the same as you got before. The thinking here is
that 1) there's something funny in the Gmakefile, or
2) there may be a variable length problem with /bin/sh
or make (perhaps a kernal config thing)

Try removing OBJ/make.rules, too. Maybe NFS or something
hiccupped while this was being written.

Do anyone else have any clues?