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Subject: Re: bsd.port.Mk error
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Mike Brown wrote:

>2. I accidentally typed "make" in a directory that did not have a Makefile,
>and got this error:
>
>"/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1459: Bad X_WINDOW_SYSTEM setting
>
>I do not have X11 installed on my system. I don't see anything in the Makefile
>that would have resulted in arriving at line 1459. If OSVERSION is being set
>by "/sbin/sysctl -n kern.osreldate" then it is "490102", and AFAIK,
>XFREE86_VERSION is not defined. Therefore around line 1180, X_WINDOW_SYSTEM
>should be set to "xfree86-4", and the elif around line 1424 should kick in.
>But somehow it falls through to the else.
>
>Any ideas?
>  
>
There must have been a Makefile in there somewhere, otherwise 
bsd.port.mk wouldn't have been included.