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Are you sure there is everything ok with your system?
And can you show us your diff and the makefile when it complains about the seperator?
It is working on Os X and a fedore vm I have.

Ok, starting from scratch in a single step since you're not convinced (for some reason):



$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.12.6
(newer than 1.12.0, which introduced the incompatibility)


first off, copy pasting the patch posted here doesn't actually work, probably because of line endings:
patch: **** malformed patch at line 13: uclex.o: uclex.cc ucparse.h

whatever, i just copy paste the 3 lines added, into the Makefile.am at the right location, and delete the 3 '+'.
$ bzr checkout --lightweight lp:exult-engine exult_test
$ gedit exult_test/usecode/compiler/Makefile.am &
$ cd exult_test
$ ./autogen.sh && ./configure --enable-compiler --enable-all-hq-scalers=no --enable-nxbr=no && make

and it ends in error (of course):
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/paulo/Documents/Netbeans_projects/exult_test/usecode'
Making all in compiler
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/paulo/Documents/Netbeans_projects/exult_test/usecode/compiler'
Makefile:669: *** missing separator. Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/paulo/Documents/Netbeans_projects/exult_test/usecode/compiler'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/paulo/Documents/Netbeans_projects/exult_test/usecode'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/paulo/Documents/Netbeans_projects/exult_test'
make: *** [all] Error 2

adding the $(SHELL) thing to the right line, and retrying that last shell line:
$ ./autogen.sh && ./configure --enable-compiler --enable-all-hq-scalers=no --enable-nxbr=no && make
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/paulo/Documents/Netbeans_projects/exult_test/usecode'
Making all in compiler
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/paulo/Documents/Netbeans_projects/exult_test/usecode/compiler'
Makefile:669: *** missing separator. Stop.

same error. If i _add_ the seperator '\' that the 'ucparse.h' rule is complaining about, i get, the other, different error that i posted here:
$ ./autogen.sh && ./configure --enable-compiler --enable-all-hq-scalers=no --enable-nxbr=no && make
/bin/bash ../../ylwrap uclex.ll lex.yy.c uclex.cc -- flex
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `test', needed by `ucparse.h'. Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/paulo/Documents/Netbeans_projects/exult_test/usecode/compiler'

(curiously, this is still with the $(SHELL) variant, so it seems this variable is expanding to a empty string)

So there you have it, it may be working on fedora, but it's certainly not working on ubuntu.
I don't need the fix upstream anymore since i'm applying that other patch i did for the builds so as far as i'm concerned you can keep things as they are and just change .h for .hh when automake < 1.12 is no longer supported.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1312 ... rator-stop
Tab vs spaces for the the test command, I guess

all right, it worked with a tab instead of spaces (gedit was replacing tabs by spaces, even when writing manually).
When and if you apply it i will remove the patch from the the ppa repo.

$(SHELL) as was said, is not needed.

Yeah, simple research helped