From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 14 18:33:12 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 004D516A419 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:33:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mfahey@enter.net) Received: from fahey.enter.net (fahey.enter.net [216.193.128.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1BF013C442 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:33:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mfahey@enter.net) Received: from [216.193.128.221] (fahey.enter.net [216.193.128.221]) by fahey.enter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id lAEILxN2044536 for ; Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:22:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mfahey@enter.net) Message-ID: <473B3CC6.6090609@enter.net> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:21:58 -0500 From: Mike Fahey Organization: Enter.Net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050401) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Gcc Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mfahey@enter.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:33:12 -0000 Freebsd4.10 When I try to compile any problem I get the following error. Any suggestions? Thanks. helpers/dummy.c:1: syntax error before `/' Here is a sample trying to build any port. make ===> wget-1.10.2_1 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.4 - found ===> wget-1.10.2_1 depends on executable: gmake - found ===> wget-1.10.2_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.8 - found ===> wget-1.10.2_1 depends on shared library: intl - found ===> Configuring for wget-1.10.2_1 configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target configure: configuring for GNU Wget 1.10.2 checking build system type... i386-portbld-freebsd4.10 checking host system type... i386-portbld-freebsd4.10 checking whether gmake sets $(MAKE)... eval: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. Please report the problem to vd@FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the "/usr/ports/ftp/wget/work/wget-1.10.2/config.log" including the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls /var/db/pkg`). *** Error code 1