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Date:      Fri, 24 Jul 1998 01:57:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Julian C. Dunn" <jdunn@aecinfo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "eval: major botch" when trying to compile sendmail (during make world)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807240156480.23199-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980722210321.14273A-100000@unix.aecinfo.com>

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On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Julian C. Dunn wrote:

> As per Doug's suggestion yesterday regarding my "dmesg: magic number
> unknown" problem, I tried recompiling userland. My "make world" seemed to
> run okay until the point where it tried to make a sendmail.cf -- I got
> this error:
> 
> ===> usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf
> rm -f freebsd.cf
> (cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf && m4 ../m4/cf.m4 freebsd.mc) >
> freebsd.cf
> m4: eval: major botch
> 
> and then it dies. I tried doing this by hand, i.e. changing directories to
> /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf and typing "m4 ../m4/cf.m4 freebsd.mc >
> freebsd.cf, but I get the same error message. Any ideas? I already
> cvsupped the source tree before I did "make world".

Something is wrong with one of the m4 files, check them.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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