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Date:      Tue, 01 Aug 1995 22:56:35 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        "Julian Stacey <jhs@freebsd.org>" <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
Cc:        Stephen Hocking <sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Build failure on FreeBSD-current. 
Message-ID:  <199508012056.WAA08669@grumble.grondar.za>

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Hi guys...

`make mk' fixes this...

M

> > From: Stephen Hocking <sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au>
> 
> > When doing a make all, things bomb at....
> > 
> > ===> share/doc/10.exref
> > (cd /usr/src/share/doc/usd/10.exref/../../../../usr.bin/vi/USD.doc/exref; g
roff
> > - - -Tps -t -ms -o1- ex.summary) |  > summary.ps.gz
> > Syntax error: end of file unexpected
> > 
> > 	Most distressing.
> 
> Yes I've seen this too :-(
> 
> Feeling conscientious, I decided to do a make world to see if it would go awa
y,
> it's obvious someone expects something like 
> 	setenv GZIP gzip
> to come from share/*.mk or some such,
> but a simple make install of src/ didnt solve it for me,
> Anyway, my machine's so busy that make world has been suspended a lot,
> & its still not through, but _if_ it turns out not to be that, & to be
> somebody's bad commit of doc Makefiles, without a chronologically preceeding 
> commit into /usr/share/mk, I think the person should take a conical hat
> & retire into a corner for a while ;-)
> This make world has been eating my performance for too long :-(
> 
> Julian S	jhs@freebsd.org
> 
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Mark Murray
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