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Date:      09 Feb 2004 09:07:56 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        "Martyn Hill" <m.hill@stjamessengirls.org.uk>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Error installing MySQL server from ports
Message-ID:  <44hdy0cpmr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <000701c3ef0d$5648c9d0$0b00000a@stjames.net>
References:  <000701c3ef0d$5648c9d0$0b00000a@stjames.net>

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"Martyn Hill" <m.hill@stjamessengirls.org.uk> writes:

> I have upgraded the ports tree on our FreeBSD 4.5 box this morning in
> preparation to install MySQL.
> 
> Running "make fetch" in the databases/mysql5-server directory gives the
> following error and then stops.
> 
> "Makefile", line 156: Malformed conditional (exists(${DB_DIR}) &&
> defined(OVERWRITE_DB) && ${OVERWRITE_DB:L} != "no")
> "Makefile", line 159: Malformed conditional (!exists(${DB_DIR}) ||
> (defined(OVERWRITE_DB) && ${OVERWRITE_DB:L} != "no"))
> "Makefile", line 167: if-less endif
> "Makefile", line 167: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 181: if-less else
> "Makefile", line 181: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 201: if-less endif
> "Makefile", line 201: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> 
> I have tried each of the MySQL server versions 4, 4.1 and 5 with each giving
> similar errors (just different line numbers in the Makefile.)
> 
> Any ideas?

Sounds like you're not using the standard system make(1) program.

Try "/usr/bin/make fetch".



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