Missing separator on macro call ?

[David Holmes]

On 24/05/2017 4:44 PM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
> Hello David,
> 
> That error means something goes wrong when evaluating the macro body. 
> Unfortunately make will not give you any better message than that. If 
> you didn't change anything in make/common/NativeCompilation.gmk, the 
> most likely cause is that you have changed a variable that is used in 
> there, or in one of the parameters in that call, and that variable now 
> has some character in it that gets misinterpreted, typically a comma or 
> dollar would be the culprits.

Or a # :(

Thanks Erik. Offlist Christine F. suggested I look for editor temp files 
but I didn't find any. But by using the trace output and running the 
find command - there it was: .#constantPool.cpp

Wow! What an insane waste of time. :(

David

> /Erik
> 
> 
> On 2017-05-24 01:44, David Holmes wrote:
>> I just sync'd my local project with jdk10/hs and am getting a strange 
>> build error:
>>
>> Building targets 'images test-image' in configuration 'linux-x64-debug'
>> lib/CompileJvm.gmk:207: *** missing separator.  Stop.
>>
>> Line 207 is:
>>
>> $(eval $(call SetupNativeCompilation, BUILD_LIBJVM, \
>>
>> so it can't in itself have a missing separator!
>>
>> I don't know how to try and debug this - any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>