make bombing: cygwin build of binutils

[Chris Faylor]

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 05:51:23PM -0400, Nick Duffek wrote:
>On 18-May-2000, John Reed wrote:
>
>>BISON = `if [ -f $$r/bison/bison ] ; then \
>>[...]
>>Makefile:144: *** commands commence before first target.  Stop.
>
>That could happen if there's a tab or space after the \ on the "BISON ="
>line.

It's probably a \r\n problem.  There is a bug in the recent cygwin release
which causes make to always see the \r regardless of whether the file
is opened in "text" mode.

If you are not using the latest cygwin DLL (1.1.1) then this problem is
undoubtedly due to the fact that you're accessing the makefile from a
directory that is mounted as "binary".  This is the default for mounts
of "root" in recent release.

If you have further questions you should probably send them to the
cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com mailing list where this kind of problem is
discussed frequently.

Christopher Faylor
Cygwin Engineering Manager
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company