Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:22:28 -0500 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "Adam Carmichael" <carneeki@hotmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Attempting to 'make buildworld' (Makefile problem) Message-ID: <20030326132400.ADA4D48463@wastegate.net> In-Reply-To: <F113iS609lcQt6Sntxd0000579e@hotmail.com>
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 23:24:30 +1100, Adam Carmichael wrote: >I'm new to CVS, and I've only upgraded FreeBSD a few times via CVS, but each >time without many hiccups (well no problems this far into the piece). > >But I have to upgrade a machine running FreeBSD 4.6.1-RELEASE-p10 #5 - and I >have a feeling that the last person to upgrade it may have left something >out, or failled to do something. Needless to say, I upgraded an exact same >clone of the box (hardware) from FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE, and it worked without >a hitch. > >Now when I run make buildworld I get the following: > >make buildworld >Makefile:137: *** missing separator. Stop. >*** Error code 2 > >Stop in /usr/src. > >The same goes for "make upgrade_checks" and "make clean" (and having almost >no usable c experience, I opened the Makefile in vi, and went to line 137, >but couldn't understand it), but I decided to compare that Makefile with the >Makefile on the computer world did build (and install) successfully on - >there was no difference. > >Does anyone have any ideas I could try? How would I find out if the make >utility is broken because other applications (like PHP and Apache) compile this might be extreme, but, myself, personaly, would rm -rf /usr/src and redownload the whole src and then try. However, I would first try removing the OBJ directory (/usr/obj/usr/src) and try it again --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net
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