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Date:      Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:33:55 +0100
From:      HERBELOT Thierry <Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr>
To:        Rudi Opperman <rudi@askas.co.za>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Error in installation of communicator45 on fbsd2.2.6 (REPOST)
Message-ID:  <36D694B3.17953D5F@telspace.alcatel.fr>
References:  <36D68ADD.4D6F4A1F@askas.co.za>

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Hello,

Your error is likely due to using a recent "ports" tree on an old world
(2.2.6 is almost one year old)

From time to time, files like /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk change (in the
/usr tree) and these modifications are neede by the ports, which gives
your error.

One easy (but lengthy) way to correct your error is to upgrade to the
latest version of FreeBSD in the 2.2 branch, that is 2.2.8 via cvsup and
make world (both are explained in the handbook)

	TfH


Rudi Opperman wrote:
> 
> hello
> i run the following ...
> FreeBSD a.b.c.d 2.2.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE #0: Mon Dec  7
> 11:01:37 SAST 1998 root@mirror.askas.co.za:/usr/src/sys/compile/mirror
> i386
> with a fairly standard kernel ...
> When i try to install netscape communicator 5 from the ports i get the
> following ...
> 
> "/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1: Malformed conditional
> (${MACHINE_ARCH:Mi386} != "")
> "/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2250: if-less endif
> "/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2250: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> 
> help ?
> 
> bye
> rudi
> 
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