[postgis] Re: Make error

[Paul Ramsey]

That's definately a corrupt archive, the Makefile actually starts with
some comment lines, like this:

#
# PostGIS Makefile
#



kitty_tongue wrote:
> 
> Did he/you ever figure out this problem?  I am getting a similar
> message with the latest release (0.6.2).  I followed the installation
> instructions on the web site, put the postgis source in
> /usr/local/src/postgresql/contrib/postgis-0.6.2, did 'make', and got
> 
> 'Makefile:1:*** missing separator.  Stop.'
> 
> The first line of the Makefile is 'r)/src/Makefile.shlib', which I
> assume is a reference to the Postgresql Makefile (shouldn't it be
> ../../src?)
> 
> The -cvs package won't even begin to compile.  I have a 'textbook'
> installation of Postgresql.
> 
> Do I have a bad archive?  What's up?
> 
> --- In postgis at y..., Paul Ramsey <pramsey at r...> wrote:
> > What version of PostGIS are you compiling? CVS or 0.5.1? Are you using
> > GNU make? What is in fact in the makefile around line 8? This is
> > probably a trivial problem with a quirky version of make.
> >
> > Düster Horst wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > I'm new with PostGIS an I try to compile PostGIS, but make returns the
> > > message:
> > >
> > > Make: Makefile: Must be a separator on line 8.  Stop.
> > >
> > > Can anyone help me??????
> > >
> > > My System:
> > >
> > > Compaq Alpha
> > > tru64 4.0f
> > >
> > > The compilation of PostgreSQL works fine.
> > >
> > > With best regards
> > >
> > > Horst Düster
> > >
> > > Switzerland
> > >
> > >
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