From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 14:45:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts8.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5335437BE18 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:44:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.179.11]) by tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20020422214259.BQSJ11799.tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:42:59 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g3MKSLb14909; Mon, 22 Apr 2002 16:28:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <004b01c1ea46$a6852b00$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Casey Scott" , References: <20020422124144.P1185-100000@cdstech.net> Subject: Re: Building ports Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:42:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am trying to build a couple of things from the ports collection, > and have read the page on building ports on the freebsd website. I > downloaded both ports, and they are in their own directories. The > problem is that both ports (imap-wu & cclient) give this error when I do > make, I get this error from BOTH ports!: > > Makefile:24: *** missing separator. Stop. > > What am I doing wrong? You will see this message if you use 'make' to make a GNU makefile. If you're executing make from the port directory, then you shouldn't see this, as all Makefiles in the ports tree are BSD makefiles. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message