From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 2 02:24:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA7316A401 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 02:24:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout1.cac.washington.edu (mxout1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE3F13C44C for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 02:24:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.7] (may be forged)) by mxout1.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l422OhEB010100 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 1 May 2007 19:24:44 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.45] (c-67-187-164-17.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.187.164.17]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l422OhGf031270 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 1 May 2007 19:24:43 -0700 Message-ID: <4637F691.7030809@u.washington.edu> Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 19:25:21 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "W. D." References: <20070502015352.12C1013C45D@mx1.freebsd.org> <004701c78c5d$83275a70$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20070502020814.A801113C455@mx1.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070502020814.A801113C455@mx1.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.5.1.190835 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=XXXXXXXXI, Probability=81%, Report='URI_CLASS_INTERNET_DOMAIN 8, __CP_MEDIA_2_BODY 0, __CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __STOCK_SUBJ_9 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Make is broken! How to fix? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 02:24:44 -0000 W. D. wrote: > At 20:59 5/1/2007, Matt Emmerton wrote: >> usw2# cd make++ >> usw2# ls -lt >> total 5 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1221 May 1 18:35 Makefile >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 190 May 1 18:35 distinfo >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 643 May 1 18:35 pkg-plist >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 602 Oct 17 2004 pkg-descr >> usw2# make install >> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5460: Malformed conditional >> (defined(USE_RCORDER) || defined(USE_RC_SUBR) && ${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != "YES") >> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5470: Malformed conditional >> (defined(USE_RC_SUBR) && ${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != "YES") >> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5481: if-less endif >> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5481: Need an operator >> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5958: if-less endif >> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5958: Need an operator >> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue >> >> FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE >> >> Just ran cvsup. Any ideas? >> ------ >> >> The ports collection is only guaranteed to work on the current release of >> FreeBSD, which is 6.2. >> You're running 4.4-REL, which is fairly old (~5.5 years -- Sep/2001) and you >> should consider upgrading. > > How do I do that without killing this production server? > >> -- >> Matt Emmerton W.D., You can't unfortunately. The only way to go about this is plan out a date when you can take down the server for approximately 1-5 hours (comfortably) depending on what you need to compile / install, and the speed of the machine. Another option (not really encouraged, but available), is to take cvsup, sync to the most current 5.5 / 6.2 tree, and compile, then take down your machine quickly into single-user mode while installing the new kernel / world. The process is in gross detail here: . Also, did you know that your mail address probably is getting marked as spam by the majority of the users on this list running anti-spam software? Mark, That's not true. The ports collection is supposed to work for all versions of FreeBSD which are supported, which includes 5.x. -Garrett