From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Sep 24 16:55:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D72B14D5A; Fri, 24 Sep 1999 16:55:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA65958; Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:22:31 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:22:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Marty Poulin Cc: snoonan@cx952600-a.fed1.sdca.home.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSup / make world problems Message-ID: <19990925092231.X54407@freebie.lemis.com> References: <35581CA8EEF2D011BA0000805F95055A01041373@deneb.nosc.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Marty Poulin on Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 04:20:39PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 24 September 1999 at 16:20:39 -0400, Marty Poulin wrote: > The people in -questions will be much better equipped to answer this one. > CC'd to them. Agreed. > On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Noonan, Mr Sean P. wrote: >> I'm a FreeBSD newbie and have a problem. >> >> I just learned about CVSup from the article at >> http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml >> . I was able to update >> all my 3.2-RELEASE source files an then attempted a 'make world'. >> >> About five minutes into it, it blows up with: >> . >> rm -rf lib ext Porting hints build >> rm -f .depend /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/miniperl/GPATH >> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/miniperl/GRTAGS >> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/miniperl/GSYMS >> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/miniperl/GTAGS >> ===> gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl >> "Makefile", line 24: Malformed conditional (${PERL_THREADED} == "yes") >> "Makefile", line 24: Need an operator >> "Makefile", line 26: if-less endif >> "Makefile", line 26: Need an operator >> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue >> >> I figured the probem is with the file >> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl/Makefile. I found the reference to >> '(${PERL_THREADED} == "yes"' in this file but nothing "pops out at me" as >> being messed up. That in itself is messed up. The error messages refer to lines 24 to 26; the correct Makefile is 10 lines long and has no reference to PERL_THREADED. I'd guess that you have the wrong Makefile, and the error messages suggest that it was intended for use with GNU make. >> Can anyone offer a suggestion as to how to proceed? I'd really >> like to know about the thought process involved, so I can fix >> problems like this in the future on my own. That's a tough one to start with. But I'd guess that something went wrong in CVSupping. It's difficult to say what, of course. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message