I had the same problem less than a week ago.

It is a bug in the Makefile.PL. It's easy to fix. Go to the appropriate line in the Makefile.PL and remove the spaces at the beginning of the line, and replace with a tab.

I'm new to this site, and I don't yet know how to send an attachment (is it possible), but if it is, I will post it here pronto.

Good luck! This is the reply I got from the dbi-users.org group.

It's a bug in Makefile.PL.  Put tabs in front of the $(NOOP) and rerun
Makefile.pl

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Resulting Makefile won't 'make' during install of DBD-ODBC
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to install DBD-ODBC on a Solaris 2.8 machine 
> and have hit a snag I can't solve myself.
> 
> After running perl Makefile.pl, I tried running make.  It 
> refused to run (see log below). I have the 'make' utility 
> that came with Solaris and the GNU 'make' utility. Both 
> refused to run..
> 
> Summary:
> GNU make error message ->
> Makefile:303: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> 
> css make error message ->
> make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 304: Unexpected 
> end of line seen
> 
> The following is the additional info that you requested, as 
> well as the following attachments 
> (log of the attempted install and the makefile)
>
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