Question

I’m new to HP-UX system and having one problem with running a make file.

Make: Must be a separator on rules line 14.  Stop.

I suspect this is due to older version of make deployed on the machine (since the same make file works on other unix and linux based systems).
Questions:-

• How do I check the version of make (does HP-UX uses GNU make?) on HP-UX
• How to upgrade make to a newer version.

I tried getting information on make using man make but couldn’t find anything on version.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Kinda brute force and might take a while, but you could try listing version info about all installed software using

$ swlist -a revision -a title 

Then search its output for whatever package looks like it’d have make in it.

Reference

Man page for swlist