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> Syntax errors in Makefiles are extremely hard to track down since I
> usually find this when the whole package build blows up when INDEX
> generation fails.

As part of the port survey, I go through the whole ports tree daily,
and errors are reported like:

From: root@FreeBSD.org (Cron Daemon)
Subject: Cron <fenner@freefall> /home/fenner/bin/makefetchlist
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 06:44:51 -0700 (PDT)
To: fenner@FreeBSD.org

===> graphics/gracula
"Makefile", line 25: 1 open conditional
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue


(the make output is postprocessed so the email usually only shows
actual failures).  I could cc: asami on these if you want =)

  Bill


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