From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 13 14:29: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89AC137B718; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:29:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f2DMSwu67248; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:28:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:28:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: chip@chocobo.cx Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port problems In-Reply-To: <20010313123604.A3868@setzer.chocobo.cx> Message-ID: X-All-Your-Base: are belong to us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Chip Marshall wrote: > Recently I've been having some annoying problems regarding ports on > one of my FreeBSD boxes. The machine in question is a P3 550Mhz, > running FreeBSD 4.3-BETA (Mar 8 18:04:01) > > The problem is that many of the ports don't compile. Some of them, > like cabextract, galeon, and jpilot, report: > make: don't know how to make real-build. Stop > while others, like AbiWord and mozilla, report something like: > /usr/ports/editors/AbiWord/Makefile:38: *** missing separator. Stop. That sounds like a bmake vs. gmake issue... you should pester the listed port MAINTAINER in the Makefile and failing that pester ports@freebsd.org. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message