In order for the mddepend.pl to work with BeOS we need the included patch. The reason being that the BeOS format of the generated dependancy file include a space between the first name and the ':'. Therefore the "/s*" is a perl modification to accept any space between the first name and the ":".

Here's the patch... Index: mozilla/build/unix/mddepend.pl =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/build/unix/mddepend.pl,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -r1.1 mddepend.pl --- mozilla/build/unix/mddepend.pl 2000/03/14 03:22:13 1.1 +++ mozilla/build/unix/mddepend.pl 2000/04/20 12:30:35 @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ # Parse dependency files while ($line = <>) { chomp $line; - ($obj,$rest) = split /:\s+/, $line, 2; + ($obj,$rest) = split /\s*:\s+/, $line, 2; next if $obj eq ''; if ($line =~ /\\$/) {

duplicate of bug 36296 which is assigned and has the same patch included.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36296 ***

verified duplicate.