/bin/sh: -chmod: command not found

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/03/2014 01:34 AM, poma wrote:
> What's the better way to deal with this phenomenon?

The first step would be to build verbose such that you see where the 
error actually occurs.

> …
> Making all in api
> make[4]: Entering directory
> `/home/poma/rpmbuild/BUILD/ModemManager-1.2.0/docs/reference/api'
>    DOC   Preparing build
>    DOC   Scanning header files
>    DOC   Introspecting gobjects
>    DOC   Rebuilding template files
>    DOC   Building XML
> /bin/sh: -chmod: command not found
>    DOC   Building HTML
>    DOC   Fixing cross-references
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/home/poma/rpmbuild/BUILD/ModemManager-1.2.0/docs/reference/api'
> Making all in libmm-glib
> make[4]: Entering directory
> `/home/poma/rpmbuild/BUILD/ModemManager-1.2.0/docs/reference/libmm-glib'
>    DOC   Preparing build
>    DOC   Scanning header files
>    DOC   Introspecting gobjects
>    DOC   Rebuilding template files
>    DOC   Building XML
> /bin/sh: -chmod: command not found
>    DOC   Building HTML
>    DOC   Fixing cross-references
In general "/bin/sh: -chmod" indicates a makefile fragment is being 
invoked as shell code instead of "make"-code.

One classical cause would be using leading spaces instead of a leading 
tab in a makefile.

Ralf