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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:10:20 +0300
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Chris <bsdnewbie@coolarrow.com>
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Subject: Re: 'make' no longer working
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On 2005-07-20 17:17, Chris <bsdnewbie@coolarrow.com> wrote:
>
> 5.2.1-RELEASE
>
> I now get this whenever I try to use 'make' to install a port:
>
> server# make
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1: Malformed conditional (${_TMLINKS:M/usr/local*}x != x)
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4: Malformed conditional (${_TMLINKS:N/usr/local*}x != x)
> [...]
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5234: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue

What version of make(1) is that?

Is it possible that you have overwritten /usr/bin/make with GNU make,
or that GNU make is installed as "make" (instead of "gmake") *AND* can
be found before /usr/bin/make because of your PATH?

- Giorgos