Re: problem on RHEL6 clone

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 01:42:33PM -0500, Circuit6 Engineering wrote:
> A problem was encountered while attempting to install and use pkgsrc
> on [Scientific Linux][SL6], a RedHat Enterprise Linux clone.
> 
> [SL6]: https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/6x/63/
> 
> 1st) Some fundamental software was installed from the RPM repos:
> 
> * gcc (and libstdc++)
> * libncurses-devel
> * zlib and zlib-devel
> * openssl-devel
> 
> 
> 2nd) The pkgsrc framework was extracted and updated:
> 
>     [root@helix tmp]# tar -xzf pkgsrc.tar.bz2 -C /opt
> 
>     [root@helix pkgsrc]# cvs update -dP
> 
> 
> 3rd) Attempted a build:
> 
>     [root@helix ]# cd /opt/pkgsrc/lang/ghc
> 
>     [root@helix ghc]# make
> 
>     Makefile:59: *** missing separator.  Stop.

Try "bmake" instead of "make"

Cheers,

Patrick