Error while running: `make`

[gdevanla]

Hello,

I am trying to build the repo using the instructions listed in the README. I am using jdk-16.0.2/ for this task.

make get works fine.

But, when I run make, I get this following error:

$ make
- site/style.css
- site/index.css
✓ Crafting Interpreters (14 words)
✓ Dedication (23 words)
✓ Acknowledgements (309 words)
✓ Table of Contents (14 words)
✓ I. Welcome (140 words)
  ✓ 1. Introduction (3913 words)
  ✓ 2. A Map of the Territory (5181 words)
  ✓ 3. The Lox Language (6595 words)
✓ II. A Tree-Walk Interpreter (185 words)
  ✓ 4. Scanning (7193 words, 294 loc)
  ✓ 5. Representing Code (7758 words, 169 loc)
  ✓ 6. Parsing Expressions (7546 words, 169 loc)
  ✓ 7. Evaluating Expressions (5546 words, 138 loc)
  ✓ 8. Statements and State (10223 words, 202 loc)
  ✓ 9. Control Flow (5481 words, 122 loc)
  ✓ 10. Functions (7976 words, 180 loc)
  ✓ 11. Resolving and Binding (7787 words, 231 loc)
  ✓ 12. Classes (9559 words, 235 loc)
  ✓ 13. Inheritance (5130 words, 98 loc)
✓ III. A Bytecode Virtual Machine (161 words)
  ✓ 14. Chunks of Bytecode (9236 words, 225 loc)
  ✓ 15. A Virtual Machine (7176 words, 142 loc)
  ✓ 16. Scanning on Demand (7238 words, 332 loc)
  ✓ 17. Compiling Expressions (8025 words, 248 loc)
  ✓ 18. Types of Values (5847 words, 143 loc)
  ✓ 19. Strings (6520 words, 164 loc)
  ✓ 20. Hash Tables (10058 words, 192 loc)
  ✓ 21. Global Variables (6006 words, 177 loc)
  ✓ 22. Local Variables (5667 words, 138 loc)
  ✓ 23. Jumping Back and Forth (7504 words, 165 loc)
  ✓ 24. Calls and Functions (11683 words, 295 loc)
  ✓ 25. Closures (12775 words, 226 loc)
  ✓ 26. Garbage Collection (10960 words, 213 loc)
  ✓ 27. Classes and Instances (4785 words, 134 loc)
  ✓ 28. Methods and Initializers (10076 words, 196 loc)
  ✓ 29. Superclasses (5556 words, 95 loc)
  ✓ 30. Optimization (10253 words, 72 loc)
✓ Backmatter (61 words)
  ✓ A1. Appendix I (614 words)
  ✓ A2. Appendix II (1611 words, 341 loc)
Built 207,252 words and 5,336 lines of code (232,385 total words) in 1.09 seconds
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/foo/fsf/craftinginterpreters'
make[1]: 'build/clox' is up to date.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/foo/fsf/craftinginterpreters'
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/foo/fsf/craftinginterpreters'
/home/foo/fsf/java/jdk-16.0.2/bin/javac: 2: /home/foo/fsf/java/jdk-16.0.2/bin/javac: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
util/java.make:16: recipe for target 'build/java/com/craftinginterpreters/tool/GenerateAst.class' failed
make[1]: *** [build/java/com/craftinginterpreters/tool/GenerateAst.class] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/foo/fsf/craftinginterpreters'
Makefile:75: recipe for target 'generate_ast' failed
make: *** [generate_ast] Error 2
(base)

Thanks for the help!

[sourcefrog]

Perhaps, on your machine, /home/foo/fsf/java/jdk-16.0.2/bin/javac is a shell script wrapping the Java compiler and it's either buggy, or maybe more likely it doesn't work well with the shell interpreter on your machine.

Does running

/home/foo/fsf/java/jdk-16.0.2/bin/javac --version

work?

[iamrelentless]

@gdevanla Were you able to fix this? I am currently getting the same error

[iamrelentless]

Never mind. Fixed it. Java was not in my path.