Hi,

I'm trying to compile POV-ray 3.1e on Digital UNIX 4.0D and Solaris
2.6.  libpng and zlib compile fine, but when I try "make newxwin" in the
source/unix directory, I get:

=> make newxwin
make: Fatal error in reader: makefile, line 1577: Macro assignment on
dependency line

for both DU and Solaris.

Has anyone seen this or know what might be causing it?

Thanks,
Peter

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Peter Ruprecht wrote:
>  
> Has anyone seen this or know what might be causing it?

This sounds like the bug that was caused by some extraneous blank spaces
at the end of the line defining the X11 path.  This will be fixed in
future versions.

-- 
Mark Gordon
mtg### [at] povrayorg

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Peter,
try GNU-Make (gmake) instead of make.
I had the same error output on Solaris, and this fixed it.
HTH,
                                - Marco


> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to compile POV-ray 3.1e on Digital UNIX 4.0D and Solaris
> 2.6.  libpng and zlib compile fine, but when I try "make newxwin" in the
> source/unix directory, I get:
>
> => make newxwin
> make: Fatal error in reader: makefile, line 1577: Macro assignment on
> dependency line
>

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>

Thanks for the above suggestions.


In addition, I had to remove the continuation
marker ( \ ) from the last line of the bcylDEP section of the makefile in
order for "make" to like the syntax.  Finally, the DEC C compiler
complained that several #define statements in polysolv.c were indented.
After that, it compiled fine and seems to be working.

  -Peter

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