Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:34:51 -0800
From: Peter Hessler <freebsd-misc@theapt.org>
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: make: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
Message-ID: <a05101001b8c474c19623@[208.201.244.160]>
In-Reply-To: <20020324.225603.121860647.imp@village.org>
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It looks like the make executable is bunk. I am using bsd make, not
gmake. Now I need to generate make w/o make. (yay!)
At 10:56 PM -0700 3/24/2002, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>In message: <20020325174011.A24006@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
> Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> writes:
>: On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 08:28:08PM -0800, Peter Hessler wrote:
>: > I am trying to update my 4.5-stable system, and I keep getting the
>: > error "make: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected"
>:
>: The error text you're getting shows that you aren't using the standard
>: make in /usr/bin. Looks like you're invoking GNU make instead - not a
>: good idea; it should have been installed as "gmake" and not "make".
>
>It might also be due to a corrupt make binary. The kernel thinks it
>is a shell script...
>
>Warner
>
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