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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:28:58 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        chip@chocobo.cx
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Port problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103131428230.63925-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010313123604.A3868@setzer.chocobo.cx>

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On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Chip Marshall wrote:

> Recently I've been having some annoying problems regarding ports on
> one of my FreeBSD boxes. The machine in question is a P3 550Mhz,
> running FreeBSD 4.3-BETA (Mar 8 18:04:01)
> 
> The problem is that many of the ports don't compile. Some of them,
> like cabextract, galeon, and jpilot, report:
> 	make: don't know how to make real-build. Stop
> while others, like AbiWord and mozilla, report something like:
> 	/usr/ports/editors/AbiWord/Makefile:38: *** missing separator.  Stop.

That sounds like a bmake vs. gmake issue... you should pester the listed
port MAINTAINER in the Makefile and failing that pester ports@freebsd.org.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org


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