Re: problems with make

[Fergus Henderson]

On 31-Jan-2001, Paul D. Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
>   j> gmake: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected
> 
> This error is not generated by GNU make.  That says to me that "gmake"
> is not the actual GNU make program, but rather a script, or some other
> program.

Another possible cause is that you're trying to run a version of
make that was compiled for one architecture on a different architecture.
In that case, the shell or OS may notice that the file you're trying
to run doesn't match the usual format for an executable on this
system, and so may fall back to treating it as a shell script; you'll
then get a message from the shell like the one above, indicating that
the binary file that it tried to execute is not valid syntax for a
shell script.

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