Weird portlint errors
Beech Rintoul
beech at freebsd.org
Thu Feb 21 23:09:57 UTC 2008
On Thursday 21 February 2008, Brooks Davis said:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:19:14PM -0800, comperr wrote:
> > http://groups.google.com/group/ml-freebsd-ports/files
> > tmp is portlint >tmp 2>&1
> > Makefile is the makefile I'm having errors with.
>
> The file contains bogus carrage returns, probably due to being
> exiting on a windows box. Please run dos2unix on it or recreate it
> in an appropriate editor. Then it will work.
>
> Also, please don't top-post when posting to freebsd-lists.
>
> -- Brooks
>
I agree and additionally you can't use spaces after variable names,
use tabs. The Makefile is full of spaces.
Beech
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