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BillyJean
BillyJean

Reputation: 1587

possible missing library when running cmake

I am trying to install a program on my machine (running Linux), but I get the following error when I run make:

Starting build...
Working Directory : /home/laptop/mplabs_test
Build Type        : 

Generating OMP binary...
/bin/sh: 1: Syntax error: "&" unexpected
make: *** [lbs3d] Error 2

What is wrong, am I missing a library?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 336

Answers (2)

Etan Reisner
Etan Reisner

Reputation: 81022

You can control the shell that make uses for executing recipes by setting the SHELL variable in the makefile.

If that makefile uses bash-specific features then it should be setting SHELL=/bin/bash already. Since it appears it isn't doing that you get to do that yourself instead.

Either modify the makefile in question or use

make SHELL=/bin/bash

instead of just running make.

Upvotes: 1

m.s.
m.s.

Reputation: 16354

The problem is that the Makefile uses bash specific syntax (|&) but the commands are executed by /bin/sh, which does not point to /bin/bash.

On my computer (Ubuntu 14.04):

ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Sep 16  2014 /bin/sh -> dash

A solution could be to let the symbolic link /bin/sh point to /bin/bash:

sudo rm /bin/sh
sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

Upvotes: 0

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