Yeah, my guess was that a Perl built with GNU Make was being used but non-GNU Make was being invoked.<br><br>Installing non-pure-Perl modules often works better when using a Perl you built yourself because the Perl configuration process set up module installation to match what tools you have, not what tools some other person used.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sthoenna@efn.org">sthoenna@efn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, November 26, 2008 8:07 pm, Kirsch, Phil wrote:<br>
> Writing Makefile for Tk<br>
> /usr/local/bin/make: syntax error at line 1: `(' unexpected<br>
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</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> I have already tried several different version of make. I've tried<br>
> updating make. But, the error persists without variation. Is make finding<br>
> something it does not expect in what it is trying to install? Can anyone<br>
> suggest an area to start troubleshooting in?<br>
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</div>Is this a GNU make? What does the beginning of the makefile look like?<br>
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