From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 26 10: 6:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eeyore.cc.uic.edu (EEYORE.CC.UIC.EDU [128.248.171.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61EEB15D0B for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:06:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lucas@comp04.prc.uic.edu) Received: from comp04.prc.uic.edu (COMP04.PRC.UIC.EDU [128.248.230.104]) by eeyore.cc.uic.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA14467 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:04:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: (qmail 92970 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Aug 1999 17:06:33 -0000 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:06:33 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman To: vih@altern.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make Message-ID: <19990826120633.F92455@comp04.prc.uic.edu> Reply-To: iceberg@pobox.com References: <37C56E36.A9C96840@taima.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: <37C56E36.A9C96840@taima.on.ca> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm not sure about this problem, but each time I try to install > something from sources I downloaded, I get this message: > > "Makefile", line 387: Need an operator > make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue Hi -- Whenever this sort of thing happens to me, it's because the author was using GNU make and/or bash, e.g. on a Linux box, and he built in an incompatibility that breaks on sh and PMake (the make on BSD). For a quick fix, I'd try installing GNU make and/or bash. If you need specifics, and as just a good habit, you'd better send the broken portion of the Makefile and/or the name of the software package/version on which this happened. Lucas -- S. Lucas Bergman University of Illinois at Chicago Mathematics Department PGP Public Key (0xC0C73619): finger -l lucas@math.uic.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message