From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 13:30:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFFCB1065677 for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 13:30:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.78.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9BC48FC17 for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 13:30:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 145A528459; Thu, 1 May 2008 09:30:48 -0400 (EDT) To: jhall@vandaliamo.net References: <19839418.168091209608296130.JavaMail.javamailuser@localhost> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 09:30:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <19839418.168091209608296130.JavaMail.javamailuser@localhost> (Jay Hall's message of "Thu\, 1 May 2008 02\:18\:16 +0000 \(GMT\)") Message-ID: <44abjaxibc.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.8 Compile X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 13:30:49 -0000 Jay Hall writes: > I am attempting to compile Perl 5.8.8 on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. I make > it through the configuration just fine, but when I attempt to run the > make command, I receive the following error message. I am creating a > custom install. The only parameter I am changing is the installation > location. > > make: don't know how to make . Stop. > > I have run make depend, and it finishes without any problems. > > I'm sure this is something simple I am missing because I have been > looking at the problem for so long. > > Thanks in advance for your assistance. Even for non-standard location installs, I recommend using the ports instead of building yourself, but if you really want to do it by hand, expect to need to know a bit more about what you're doing. In this case, I suspect you need to use gmake instead of (the native) make. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/