From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 24 22:35:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.theapt.org (adsl-208-201-244-166.sonic.net [208.201.244.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A476737B417 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:35:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21414 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2002 06:35:19 -0000 Received: from adsl-208-201-244-160.sonic.net (HELO ?208.201.244.160?) (208.201.244.160) by 0 with SMTP; 25 Mar 2002 06:35:19 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: freebsd-misc@mail.theapt.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020324.225603.121860647.imp@village.org> References: <20020325174011.A24006@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20020324.225603.121860647.imp@village.org> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:34:51 -0800 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Peter Hessler Subject: Re: make: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 It looks like the make executable is bunk. I am using bsd make, not gmake. Now I need to generate make w/o make. (yay!) At 10:56 PM -0700 3/24/2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: >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 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message