From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 05:19:21 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E690537B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 05:19:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66C7B43F85 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 05:19:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mav@wastegate.net) Received: from wastegate.net (12-226-185-104.client.attbi.com[12.226.185.104]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with ESMTP id <20030326131920053005ivo4e>; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:19:20 +0000 Received: from MOTHER (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.5]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADA4D48463; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:24:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Adam Carmichael" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:22:28 -0500 Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2657) For Windows 2000 (5.1.2600;1) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20030326132400.ADA4D48463@wastegate.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-9.1 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,RCVD_IN_UNCONFIRMED_DSBL autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Subject: Re: Attempting to 'make buildworld' (Makefile problem) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:19:23 -0000 On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 23:24:30 +1100, Adam Carmichael wrote: >I'm new to CVS, and I've only upgraded FreeBSD a few times via CVS, but each >time without many hiccups (well no problems this far into the piece). > >But I have to upgrade a machine running FreeBSD 4.6.1-RELEASE-p10 #5 - and I >have a feeling that the last person to upgrade it may have left something >out, or failled to do something. Needless to say, I upgraded an exact same >clone of the box (hardware) from FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE, and it worked without >a hitch. > >Now when I run make buildworld I get the following: > >make buildworld >Makefile:137: *** missing separator. Stop. >*** Error code 2 > >Stop in /usr/src. > >The same goes for "make upgrade_checks" and "make clean" (and having almost >no usable c experience, I opened the Makefile in vi, and went to line 137, >but couldn't understand it), but I decided to compare that Makefile with the >Makefile on the computer world did build (and install) successfully on - >there was no difference. > >Does anyone have any ideas I could try? How would I find out if the make >utility is broken because other applications (like PHP and Apache) compile this might be extreme, but, myself, personaly, would rm -rf /usr/src and redownload the whole src and then try. However, I would first try removing the OBJ directory (/usr/obj/usr/src) and try it again --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net