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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: gmake can't find Makefile
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On 2005-09-18 12:12, dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>     I've created my first port. It depended on another port, which i
> uninstalled first, then tried an install of mine. I issued a
> make install
> which pulled in the dependent port and installed it. When it returned to the
> build of my port gmake failed with an error code2, can not find Makefile and
> it stopped. I've confirmed that my Makefile is there, portlint shows no
> errors in it. Compiling the package out of it's tarballform requires gmake
> for the make and make install process so in my makefile i defined:
> USE_GMAKE=yes
> variable.
> Any advice?

Can you post a tarball of the two ports online somewhere, so we can test
their build too?