I fixed it by emerge-ing Gentoo's make. Seems there is a bug in the 
make program in OpenSolaris. I guess I would amend the directions at 
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/bootstrap-solaris.xml 
to emerge make before emerging flex. :-)

At 5:36 PM -0400 6/23/08, Maurice Volaski wrote:
>I am now proceeding to oneshot programs on 64-bit x86 Solaris. I am 
>stuck on flex. It seems that (OpenSolaris?) make is having trouble 
>reading a line. Could this be a general bug in this particular 
>version of the flex makefile?
>
>make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 178: Unexpected end of line seen
>Current working directory 
>/opt/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/flex-2.5.33-r3/work/flex-2.5.33/tests/test-table-opts
>*** Error code 1
>The following command caused the error:
>set fnord $MAKEFLAGS; amf=$2; \
>dot_seen=no; \
>target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \
>list='test-rescan-r  test-rescan-nr  test-basic-nr  test-basic-r 
>test-bison-yylloc  test-bison-yylval  test-bison-nr 
>test-multiple-scanners-nr  test-multiple-scanners-r  test-header-nr 
>test-header-r  test-reject  test-c++-multiple-scanners 
>test-c++-basic  test-posixly-correct  test-posix  test-mem-r 
>test-mem-nr  test-debug-nr  test-debug-r  test-lineno-r 
>test-lineno-nr  test-linedir-r  test-array-nr  test-array-r 
>test-c-cpp-nr  test-c-cpp-r  test-include-by-buffer 
>test-include-by-push  test-include-by-reentrant  test-prefix-nr 
>test-prefix-r  test-pthread  test-string-nr  test-string-r 
>test-yyextra  test-noansi-nr  test-noansi-r  test-top 
>test-table-opts'; for subdir in $list; do \
>   echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \
>   if test "$subdir" = "."; then \
>     dot_seen=yes; \
>     local_target="$target-am"; \
>   else \
>     local_target="$target"; \
>   fi; \
>   (cd $subdir && make  $local_target) \
>    || case "$amf" in *=*) exit 1;; *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac; \
>done; \
>if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \
>   make  "$target-am" || exit 1; \
>fi; test -z "$fail"
>

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Maurice Volaski, mvolaski@...
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
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