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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 18:46:41 -0400
From: Stewart MacLund <sundie@lunaticfringe.org>
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Subject: Re: HUrm...  Odd "gmake" error...
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    Strangely, it USED to work...

    And, i thought gmake was a good drop in replacement for make?  No?  Odd.
Again, it has always worked before.

    And yes, i know, it's silly to make your hole ports tree.  It was only
used as an example.

    For instance, i would get the same error trying it in
/usr/src/sys/compile/<machine name>

    And, i say again, strangely, it USED to work...

Stewart...

Brett Taylor wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >     Hello All.  I've been getting an odd gmake error.  Gmake just
> > totally refuses to make anything.  This is the error it constantly
> > gives:
> >
> > <zapruder/usr/ports >$ gmake
> > Makefile:52: *** missing separator.  Stop.
>
> Um, what are you trying to do?  If you are in /usr/ports then you need to
> use the regular ol' Berkeley make (make).  I wouldn't do a make in
> /usr/ports anyway unless you want to build every single port.
>
> >     It makes this error (or one with a different number) on every
> > makefile i attempt to load...
>
> If you're doing this in /usr/ports/*/* then just use make, not gmake (GNU
> make).  Unsurprisingly the ports tree is set up to use make.
>
> Brett
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