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Date:      Sun, 9 Feb 2003 09:19:11 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Billy Newsom" <billy@nlcc.us>
To:        <mail-toaster@simerson.net>
Cc:        <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Doing a make install gives me a Missing }.
Message-ID:  <2338.192.168.1.2.1044803951.squirrel@ibm.nlcc.us>

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I'm actually looking for any info on installing ports in general.  I
keep running into this problem when I do a make install in my ports
directory. For example, I have installed a few ports lately.  Right now, I
was actually tackling the install of Java and Mozilla 1.3a.

But I get this error with a number of different ports.  Sometimes, I
can get around it.  But I normally run make in my ports tree, eg:

# cd /usr/ports/www/adzap
# make
# make install
# make clean

Well, sometimes, I get the following error.  After make has completed
and I type make install, I get the following brief message:

Missing }.

Yes, a close curly bracket and a period.  Now, I think I've gotten
around it in at least two ways.  Once, I think I edited the Makefile.
(Maybe I added a bracket somewhere?)  But I have often found that if I go
into the work directory, I can run make install there and it will
(sometimes) work.

Well, these workarounds seem like strange.  I don't think I'm doing
something right.  I even tried gmake, but it doesn't seem to work,
either.

Has anyone seen this before?  I get it on half of the ports I install.

When I have this error, make won't run, either, nor will make clean.

I can't get Mozilla or Java to install due to this error.  Is my whole
ports tree messed up?  I have FreeBSD 4.7, with Matt Simerson's mail
toaster installed.

Thanks,
Billy




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