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nmake syntax error at -e line 1, near "'755' ]"

Everytime I try to run nmake on any package, it gives me this error:

syntax error at -e line 1, near "'755' ]" Missing right curly or square bracket at -e line 1, at end of line Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

Does anyone know why this might be?

I believe this answer might be what's happening: Compiling WWW::Curl on ActivePerl

In my /N output, there's:

C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Install -e "pm_to_blib({{@ARGV}, 'blib \lib\auto', q[], '755')"

What's with the {{? I guess this Makefile is just messed up then. The same thing happened when I tried to make Perltidy from source however.

Solution

  • I used dmake, and there were no problems with the curly braces.