Why do I get "Makefile:311: *** missing separator. Stop." when building DBD::ODBC 1.06?

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Why do I get "Makefile:311: *** missing separator. Stop." when building DBD::ODBC 1.06?

Article:: 00771

Last Reviewed:: 19th July 2005

Revision:: 1

There is a mistake in the Makefile.PL. Edit the Makefile.PL and search for "NOOP" to find the line:

@$(NOOP)

Replace the spaces in front of "@$(NOOP)" with a <tab> character. Now rerun perl Makefile.PL.

Also, if you are using RedHat 9 you may want to see

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87682
and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84268

which suggest that when LANG is set to include UTF8 (default), perl generated make files and even perl -V output are incorrect. This is apparently corrected by setting LANG to something other than UTF8 e.g. LANG=en_US, LANG=C.

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