Help on compilig mars-nwe novell emulator

Question

Hi, I am trying to compile mars-nwe on my archlinux box. But I got following error when compiling mars-nwe
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/b-qian/mars/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/obj'
rm -f Makefile.o
cp ../makefile.unx makefile.c
cc -E -DLINUX -DQTAINSYS -DUSE_GDBM -I.. makefile.c > Makefile.o
rm -f makefile.c
make -f Makefile.o n_all
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/b-qian/mars/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/obj'
Makefile.o:93: *** missing separator. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/b-qian/mars/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/obj'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/b-qian/mars/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/obj'
The errors are also reported in '/tmp/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig.err'
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make: *** [all] Error 1
I know that is the gcc4 problem, I try to install gcc3.3, and get same error.
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/b-qian/mars/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/obj'
make -f Makefile.o n_all
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/b-qian/mars/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/obj'
Makefile.o:93: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces?). Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/b-qian/mars/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/obj'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/b-qian/mars/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/obj'
The errors are also reported in '/tmp/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig.err'
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make: *** [all] Error 1
since I can compile it from debian woody, I decide to install gcc 2.95 to compile it,
But I got following error:
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/b-qian/mars/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/obj'
rm -f Makefile.o
cp ../makefile.unx makefile.c
cc -E -DLINUX -DQTAINSYS -DUSE_GDBM -I.. makefile.c > Makefile.o
rm -f makefile.c
make -f Makefile.o n_all
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/b-qian/mars/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/obj'
cc -c -pipe -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -DLINUX -DQTAINSYS -DUSE_GDBM -D_VERS_H_=0 -D_VERS_L_=99 -D_VERS_P_=20 ../nwserv.c
In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:270,
from /usr/include/stdlib.h:320,
from ../net.h:29,
from ../nwserv.c:21:
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:69: warning: unnamed struct/union that defines no instances
cc -c -pipe -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -DLINUX -DQTAINSYS -DUSE_GDBM -D_VERS_H_=0 -D_VERS_L_=99 -D_VERS_P_=20 ../emutli.c
In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:270,
from /usr/include/stdlib.h:320,
from ../net.h:29,
from ../emutli.c:23:
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:69: warning: unnamed struct/union that defines no instances
cc -c -pipe -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -DLINUX -DQTAINSYS -DUSE_GDBM -D_VERS_H_=0 -D_VERS_L_=99 -D_VERS_P_=20 ../net1.c
In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:270,
from /usr/include/stdlib.h:320,
from ../net.h:29,
from ../net1.c:20:
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:69: warning: unnamed struct/union that defines no instances
cc -c -pipe -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -DLINUX -DQTAINSYS -DUSE_GDBM -D_VERS_H_=0 -D_VERS_L_=99 -D_VERS_P_=20 ../tools.c
In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:270,
from /usr/include/stdlib.h:320,
from ../net.h:29,
from ../tools.c:20:
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:69: warning: unnamed struct/union that defines no instances
cc -c -pipe -Wall -D_GNU_SOURCE -DLINUX -DQTAINSYS -DUSE_GDBM -D_VERS_H_=0 -D_VERS_L_=99 -D_VERS_P_=20 ../emutli1.c
../emutli1.c:36: linux/config.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/include/sys/types.h:270,
from /usr/include/stdlib.h:320,
from ../emutli1.c:31:
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:69: warning: unnamed struct/union that defines no instances
../emutli1.c: In function `init_ipx':
../emutli1.c:343: `ipx_config_data' undeclared (first use in this function)
../emutli1.c:343: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
../emutli1.c:343: for each function it appears in.)
../emutli1.c:343: parse error before `cfgdata'
../emutli1.c:345: `cfgdata' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [emutli1.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/b-qian/mars/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/obj'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/b-qian/mars/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/obj'
I seems the header files are newer and something that gcc 2.95 didn't support.
I am a beginner and I cannot dig any further.
so, What can I do next ?
Last edited by bendany (2008-02-23 09:34:42)

Answer 1

those are makefile errors, it appears someone edited them with an editor that defaults to spaces
and or replaces tab with spaces,
make indentation is expected to be \t(TAB) spaces are not allowed
you can fix it by
sed -i /home/b-qian/mars/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/mars-nwe-0.99.pl20.orig/obj/Makefile.o -e "s/^ */\t/g"
as you said, you will need to try and compile this with an older version of gcc 4.2.3 will not compile this
it's full of errors, according to modern gcc and me. try it, it's kinda funny lol