Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 17:53:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Jay Hall <jhall@vandaliamo.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.8 Compile Message-ID: <17174274.182011209664401216.JavaMail.javamailuser@localhost>
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I received the same error with both make and gmake. Thanks, Jay On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Jay Hall <jhall@vandaliamo.net> 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 <command-line>. 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/
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