From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 24 21:57:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB6BB37B400 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 21:57:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2P5v8i05438; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:57:08 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2P5v7f01050; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:57:07 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:56:03 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20020324.225603.121860647.imp@village.org> To: jonc@chen.org.nz Cc: freebsd-misc@theapt.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20020325174011.A24006@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020325174011.A24006@grimoire.chen.org.nz> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20020325174011.A24006@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Jonathan Chen 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message