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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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