bogofilter installation on debian

[David Relson]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 20:47:32 -0500
Zhenyu Zhong wrote:

> Thanks a lot.
> Since I am trying to build the bogofilter from scratch on DEBIAN, I have
> automake v1.4-p6 , autoconf v 2.13. I don't know if they are too old. But
> these are the latest version I can find on debian.
> I tried using the configure script from the ftp site. I can run the
> configure successfully. But when I go to ./src and do make, it complains
> "Makefile:17611: *** missing separator.  Stop."
> 
> Any idea on what is going on?
> thanks
> zhenyu

Seems like I've seen that message from make at various times and it was
caused by whitespace in a line that make expected to be empty.  Given
that the message mentions line 17611 look there (and the lines just
before and after) and remove any whitespace at the _end_ of the line.

HTH,

David