From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 1 17:53:24 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 35FA3106566C for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 17:53:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF2728FC15 for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 17:53:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhall@vandaliamo.net) Received: (qmail 7443 invoked by uid 1006); 1 May 2008 17:53:22 -0000 Received: from jhall@vandaliamo.net by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:SA:0(-1.4/100.0):. Processed in 0.981677 secs); 01 May 2008 17:53:22 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=100.0 X-Spam-Level: Received: from unknown (HELO laz1) (172.16.0.69) by -v with SMTP; 1 May 2008 17:53:21 -0000 Received: from [10.75.0.1] by webmail.vandaliamo.net with HTTP; Thu, 1 May 2008 17:53:21 +0000 Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 17:53:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Jay Hall To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <17174274.182011209664401216.JavaMail.javamailuser@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed; delsp=no Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Laszlo Mail 2 X-Originating-IP: [10.75.0.1] Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.8 Compile X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jhall@vandaliamo.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 17:53:24 -0000 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 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/