current cvs build fails!?

[Harald Fernengel]

Hi Daniel,

On Saturday 30 August 2003 16:11, Daniel Franke wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 1:17 PM
> > To: kdevelop-devel at kdevelop.org
> > Subject: current cvs build fails!?
> >
> > $>gmake -f Makefile.cvs
>
> [...]
>
> > *** Postprocessing Makefile templates
> > Too many arguments for open at admin/am_edit line 535, near "$makefile)
> >         "
> > Execution of admin/am_edit aborted due to compilation errors.
> > gmake[1]: *** [cvs] Error 1
> > gmake: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Does anybody know when this code snipplet was introduced in
> 'admin/am_edit', line 530 and following?
> --snip--
>     # Checking for files to process...
>
>     # perl bug in 5.8.0: in utf8 mode it badly screws up
>     if($] >= 5.008 && $] < 5.008001) {
>       open (FILEIN, "<:bytes", $makefile)
>
>         || die "Could not open $makefileDir/$makefile: $!\n";
>
>     }
>     else {
>       open (FILEIN, $makefile)
>
>         || die "Could not open $makefileDir/$makefile: $!\n";
>
>     }
> --/snip--
>
> I had to comment out everything but the open() in the else-branch to get
> --
> *** Postprocessing Makefile templates
> --
> working again.
>
> I'm using solaris 8 and perl 5.8.0 from sunfreeware.com

The admin/ dir is not part of KDevelop, but of the KDE build system. If you 
don't get an answer from coolo, you should better ask on kde-devel, or check 
webcvs for the commit logs to find out who comitted the change and why.

Best regards,
Harald