[Gretl-devel] Problems with using make

[Allin Cottrell]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 andreas.rosenblad at ltv.se wrote:

> First, I have to say that I am not used to UNIX. However, I have tried to
> follow your instructions. But when typing "make" in the /c/gretl/win32
> directory, I get the following error message:
>
> : No such file or directory
> Makefile:22: *** commands commence before first target. Stop.

Yuck, this is some horrible mess to do with LF versus CR/LF line
endings in the Makefiles, perhaps introduced by CVS.  I've tried
to fix it, but if all else fails you can replace the bad files
by going to th CVS browser at
http://gretl.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gretl/gretl/win32/ :
"download" the file (view it as plain text in the browser), then
copy-n-paste the contents into your local version.

I don't fully understand the issue here: msys should be fine with
unix-style line endings, but I think somehow CVS is breaking these
text files when importing them into Windows.

I have made some additional changes to the build process, and I
can now confirm that the installer I made on Windows works
properly.

Allin.