From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Mon Oct  9 10:15:37 2000
Subject: make install problems
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: David DS Barnes <d dot d dot barnes at ic dot ac dot uk>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 10:14:10 -0500

On  9-Oct-2000, David DS Barnes <d dot d dot barnes at ic dot ac dot uk> wrote:

| Hi all,
| 
| I'm trying to install octave on a dec.
| 
| I get through the 'configure' part ok,
| at least no obvious WARNING/ERROR messages
| 
| then I try 'make install',
| and I get this:
| 
| 	Make: Makeconf: Must be a separator on line 71.  Stop.
| 
| 
| can anybody help, or am I some kind of spanner?

You need GNU Make.

jwe



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