openldap fails build in liblber : multiple target patterns

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My /Developer partition is on another drive. Therefore, the path to the drive is /Volumes/750gb HDD/Developer.

When compiling openldap (gnupg requires this) it fails due to a:

:info:build Makefile:402: *** multiple target patterns.  Stop.

error. This appears to be due to a path problem in the library makefiles. Example excerpt from the Makefile:

assert.lo: ../../include/portable.h
assert.lo: assert.c
assert.lo: ../../include/ldap_cdefs.h
assert.lo: ../../include/ac/fdset.h
assert.lo: ../../include/ac/assert.h

When you combine the lines:

assert.lo: /Volumes/750gb\HDD/Developer/usr/llvm-gcc-4.2/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-apple-darwin10/4.2.1/include/stddef.h

It compiles normally.

Other makes in libraries seem to have this as well.

Attached: Full error log, makefile excerpt.

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The resulting Makefile.

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Exerpt of the build log that shows the error.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Having spaces in the path to your compiler, or in the path to MacPorts, is not a good idea; a lot of software projects have not been tested in that configuration and will probably fail. So you will have a better experience if you rename your paths (in this case your "750gb HDD" volume) so that they do not contain spaces.