Question on error: "Makefile", line 24: Need an operator

[Danny Pansters]

On Monday 14 January 2008 20:56:11 Jim Stapleton wrote:
> I'm trying to build a port for FreeBSD, and I get this error when
> running "Make":
>
> "Makefile", line 24: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>
>
>
> To my knowledge, everything looks good so far. The line in question is:
> do-build:
>     (cd ${WRKDIR}/extended_threading/extended_threading/ && \
>      echo "import sys; import py_compile; for f in sys.argv:
> py_compile.compile(f)" | python *)
>
>
> Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? (operator? huh?)
>
> Thanks,
> -Jim Stapleton
>
>
> sjss at elrond 14:42:07 (2) ~/dev/extended_threading_port > cat Makefile
> # New ports collection makefile for:   py-extended_threading
> # Date created:        14 Jan 2008
> # Whom:                James Stapleton <user(sjss) host(var [dash] dev
> [dot] net)>
> #
> # $FreeBSD$
> #
>
> PORTNAME=       py_extended_threading
> PORTVERSION=    0.2
> CATEGORIES=     devel python
> MASTER_SITES+= 
> http://www.var-dev.net/programming/python/extended_threading/ \
> http://www.var-dev.com/programming/python/extended_threading/ \
> http://www.var-dev.org/programming/python/extended_threading/ DISTNAME=    
>   extended_threading-0_2
> EXTRACT_SUFX=   .tar.bz2
>
> MAINTAINER=    user(sjss) host(var [dash] dev [dot] net)
> COMMENT=       a library to extend pythons threading library
>
> USE_PYTHON=     2.3+
>

This usually comes up when you have spaces instead of tabs.

> do-build:
>     (cd ${WRKDIR}/extended_threading/extended_threading/ && \
>      echo "import sys; import py_compile; for f in sys.argv:
> py_compile.compile(f)" | python *)

BTW, I think python -c "import sys; import py_compile; for f in sys.argv: 
py_compile.compile(f)" is nicer than using echo.

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HTH,

Dan