# Error Attempting to MAKE Ansible src:  Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 26: Unexpected end of line seen

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**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 5, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-attempting-to-make-ansible-src-fatal-error-in-reader-makefile-line-26-unexpected-end-of-line-seen/23173 "2016-12-05T18:11:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Harvey\_Flaisher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Harvey\_Flaisher](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Harvey_Flaisher)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-attempting-to-make-ansible-src-fatal-error-in-reader-makefile-line-26-unexpected-end-of-line-seen/23173/1 "2016-12-05T18:11:03Z")

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Hello:

I am attempting to install Ansible on Unix Solaris. So I downloaded the src and am attempting to

$ make  
make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 26: Unexpected end of line seen

26 ifneq ($(shell which a2x 2\>/dev/null),)  
27 ASCII2MAN = a2x -L -D $(dir $@) -d manpage -f manpage $\<  
28 ASCII2HTMLMAN = a2x -L -D docs/html/man/ -d manpage -f xhtml  
29 else  
30 ASCII2MAN = @echo “ERROR: AsciiDoc ‘a2x’ command is not installed but is required to build $(MANPAGES)” && exit 1  
31 endif

when I tried gmake, I also encountered errors:

bash-3.2$ /usr/sfw/bin/gmake  
/bin/sh: git: not found  
/bin/sh: git: not found  
/bin/sh: git: not found  
date: illegal option – utc  
date: illegal option – date=  
usage: date [-u] mmddHHMM[[cc]yy][.SS]  
date [-u] [+format]  
date -a [-]sss[.fff]  
Cleaning up distutils stuff  
rm -rf build  
rm -rf dist  
rm -rf lib/ansible.egg-info/  
Cleaning up byte compiled python stuff  
find . -type f -regex “.\*.py[co]$” -delete  
find: bad option -regex  
find: [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list  
gmake: \*\*\* [clean] Error 1

Thanks for any help.

–Harvey