Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:23:28 -0700 From: Ricky Huang <rhuang.work@gmail.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Malformed conditional when trying to make Message-ID: <11DB8B39-1B03-4A2E-BD21-EC413F0A7ECC@gmail.com>
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Hello all,
In light of the recent shell shock exploit, I have started =
patching/update some old systems I own, with "portsnap fetch extract =
update" command. There is a machine running "FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3" =
that throws a "malformed conditional" error whenever I try to make. A =
snippet of the error is as follows:
>=20
> Unknown modifier 't'
>=20
> "Makefile", line 57: Malformed conditional (${PORT_OPTIONS:MSTATIC} || =
defined(NO_DYNAMICROOT) || (defined(NOSHARED) && ${NOSHARED:tl} !=3D =
"no"))
> "Makefile", line 61: if-less else
> "Makefile", line 64: if-less endif
> Unknown modifier 't'
>=20
> Unknown modifier 't'
I looked up the "releases" section on FreeBSD.org, =
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/#prior-unsupported, and it shows 9.0 as =
unsupported. Fine. But what I do not understand is why does it allowed =
my old, unsupported machine to pull from a reposition that it cannot =
possibly compile? Shouldn't it stop at the last compile'able rev?
Anyways, I know the box is old and should be upgraded anyways. So being =
a FreeBSD noob, what would be the best way to do an in-place upgrade of =
the system? There are stuff on the server that I want to keep and a =
wipe-reinstall is not highly desirable. Is the update command =
"freebsd-update"? Also are there any gotchas that I should look out =
for?
Thanks for reading.
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