From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 13 08:31:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7330216A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:31:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from redqueen.elvandar.org (cust.94.120.adsl.cistron.nl [195.64.94.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFAB843D54 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:31:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from remko@elvandar.org) Received: from [10.0.2.122] (nimrod.elvandar.intranet [10.0.2.122]) by redqueen.elvandar.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B72A10685E; Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:31:05 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <411C7C4B.5000504@elvandar.org> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:31:07 +0200 From: Remko Lodder X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roger Merritt References: <5.2.0.9.0.20040813151253.00a052b0@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20040813151253.00a052b0@127.0.0.1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at elvandar.org cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can I reinstall make? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:31:09 -0000 Roger Merritt wrote: > root@kepler:/usr/ports/devel/autoconf253# cd ../../lang/perl5.8 > root@kepler:/usr/ports/lang/perl5.8# make deinstall > Missing }. > > This doesn't look good. At the moment the machine is still fulfilling > its main function as a gateway to the Internet for the Windows machines > in our student computer lab, but I fear for the future. How can I be > sure the problem is really with 'make' and how can I fix the problem if > it is? > It seems that it can't interpret the Makefile enough, or that there is a dependency which has a missing }. Did you try updating the ports sources via cvsup? If not, perhaps you can try that so you will have latest ports sources, which might have this issue corrected. If not, you can also go to the ftp servers of freebsd, and download the /distfile you need (automake and autoconf for example) and install them with pkg_install That way you have a precompiled binary, which you can use, so that perhaps the issue goes away. Cheers! -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |remko@elvandar.org Reporter DSINet |remko@dsinet.org Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |remko@mostly-harmless.nl