unexpected end of line

[Robert Leach]

I installed a second copy of readline and got past the initial make.  
Now I have a problem with make install.  I get this error:

address@hidden [42] .../local/octave-2.1.50 % make install
make -f octMakefile install
make: Fatal error in reader: ./Makeconf, line 14: Unexpected end of 
line seen
Current working directory /home/local/octave-2.1.50
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `install'


Here's the offending file.  If commented lines aren't counted, then 
what's EXEEXT supposed to be and why didn't configure fail?

Rob


# Makeconf.  Generated from Makeconf.in by configure.
#
# Common configuration rules for all of octave's Makefiles.
#
# John W. Eaton
# address@hidden
# University of Wisconsin-Madison
# Department of Chemical Engineering

SHELL = /bin/sh

SED = /usr/lanl/bin/sed
export SED

# A shell command to extract the version number from version.h.
getversion = $(SED) -e '/VERSION/!d' -e 's/.*"\(.*\)".*$$/\1/' -e q

# Look for version.h to get version information.
xfiles := $(TOPDIR)/src/version.h $(srcdir)/$(TOPDIR)/src/version.h
version_file := $(firstword $(foreach file, $(xfiles), $(wildcard 
$(file))))version := $(shell $(getversion) $(version_file))
#### Start of system configuration section. ####

EXEEXT =

BUILD_EXEEXT = $(EXEEXT)

...
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= Robert W. Leach                                                   =
= Los Alamos National Lab                                           =
= Bioscience Division: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Group =
= MS M888                                                           =
= Los Alamos, NM 87545                                              =
= address@hidden                                                 =
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