From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 8 13:48:15 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 24160E04 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2014 13:48:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kolab.oak-wood.co.uk (kolab.oak-wood.co.uk [109.236.171.146]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9172331 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2014 13:48:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kolab.oak-wood.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E857313DB00 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2014 13:42:12 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at oak-wood.co.uk Received: from kolab.oak-wood.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kolab.oak-wood.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TI+n6R7wxhoE for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2014 13:41:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kolab.oak-wood.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6501E13DB02 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2014 13:41:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.37.71] (unknown [192.168.37.71]) (Authenticated sender: chris@oak-wood.co.uk) by kolab.oak-wood.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7052F13DB00 for ; Sat, 8 Mar 2014 13:41:47 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <531B1E18.60300@oak-wood.co.uk> Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 13:41:44 +0000 From: Chris Hastie User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100411 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Keeping going with an old system Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 13:48:15 -0000 I know the correct answer to this is 'upgrade', but for various reasons this is not a realistic option for me in the short term. I have a remotely located box running 6.2. I recently performed a `portsnap fetch update` to update the ports tree, but any attempt to build a port results in errors such as Unknown modifier 'u' Unknown modifier 'u' "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk", line 259: Need an operator "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk", line 266: Need an operator Unknown modifier 'u' "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk", line 271: Malformed conditional (defined(WITH_NE:M))) "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.options.mk", line 276: Malformed conditional (defined(WITHOUT_NE:M))) Variable OPTIONS_DEFAULT is recursive. I presume this is because bsd.options.mk is no longer compatible with some key part of my system - gmake perhaps? Is there any way I can work around this to build / upgrade ports? Cheers Chris