Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:56:03 -0700 (MST)
From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
To: jonc@chen.org.nz
Cc: freebsd-misc@theapt.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: make: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
Message-ID: <20020324.225603.121860647.imp@village.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020325174011.A24006@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
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In message: <20020325174011.A24006@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> writes:
: On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 08:28:08PM -0800, Peter Hessler wrote:
: > I am trying to update my 4.5-stable system, and I keep getting the
: > error "make: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected"
:
: The error text you're getting shows that you aren't using the standard
: make in /usr/bin. Looks like you're invoking GNU make instead - not a
: good idea; it should have been installed as "gmake" and not "make".
It might also be due to a corrupt make binary. The kernel thinks it
is a shell script...
Warner
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