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Date:      Thu, 12 May 2005 17:47:30 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Mark Probert <probertm@acm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /usr/src make problem
Message-ID:  <20050513004729.GA76476@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200505121623.29720.probertm@acm.org>
References:  <200505121347.33797.probertm@acm.org> <200505121623.29720.probertm@acm.org>

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On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:23:29PM -0700, Mark Probert wrote:
> Hi ..=20
>=20
>  On Thursday 12 May 2005 13:47, Mark Probert wrote:
> > Hi ..
> >
> > I have just updated my source tree, gone into /usr/src, and have the
> > following error:
> >
> > kant# make -j4 buildworld
> > Makefile:92: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> >
> (Many thanks to csghost for the help.)
>=20
> Just to record the solution, here is how to fix this problem.
>=20
> The issue is that GNU make is being called rather than /usr/bin/make.  On=
 my=20
> system (5.3-RELEASE), GNU make had blown away /usr/bin/make and replaced =
it=20
> with a symlink to /usr/local/bin/gmake.  (I guess this happened when I di=
d a=20
> "pkg_add -r gmake".  Perhaps this should be reported as a "bug" ... )

No, it didn't.  In order to damage your system in this way you need to
take some other form of manual action.

Kris

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