Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:42:10 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Casey Scott" <casey@cdstech.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Building ports Message-ID: <004b01c1ea46$a6852b00$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <20020422124144.P1185-100000@cdstech.net>
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> I am trying to build a couple of things from the ports collection, > and have read the page on building ports on the freebsd website. I > downloaded both ports, and they are in their own directories. The > problem is that both ports (imap-wu & cclient) give this error when I do > make, I get this error from BOTH ports!: > > Makefile:24: *** missing separator. Stop. > > What am I doing wrong? You will see this message if you use 'make' to make a GNU makefile. If you're executing make from the port directory, then you shouldn't see this, as all Makefiles in the ports tree are BSD makefiles. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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