Question

I have a make file that is throwing an error. I believe that the problem is down to a conditional statement that I have the syntax wrong for but can’t figure out what is actually wrong.

To be clear I am running the code using the command make {target_name}

The code is

ifeq ($(isDynamic), d)
    libExt=.so
else
    libExt=.a
endif 

The error is
/bin/sh: 0403-057 Syntax error at line 1 : `(‘ is not expected.

Answer 1

You’re running a Makefile as a shell script. You probably want to run make on it instead. Possibly you want to turn it into a make script, although this usually isn’t quite what people intend; make the first line

#! /usr/bin/make -f

(or wherever GNU make is) and chmod +x it.