From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 9 15:16: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75B4414C4E for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 15:15:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA18673; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:15:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:15:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Stewart MacLund Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HUrm... Odd "gmake" error... In-Reply-To: <37D8301A.45336DEC@lunaticfringe.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > Hello All. I've been getting an odd gmake error. Gmake just > totally refuses to make anything. This is the error it constantly > gives: > > $ gmake > Makefile:52: *** missing separator. Stop. Um, what are you trying to do? If you are in /usr/ports then you need to use the regular ol' Berkeley make (make). I wouldn't do a make in /usr/ports anyway unless you want to build every single port. > It makes this error (or one with a different number) on every > makefile i attempt to load... If you're doing this in /usr/ports/*/* then just use make, not gmake (GNU make). Unsurprisingly the ports tree is set up to use make. Brett ***************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message