Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 19:25:21 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Make is broken! How to fix? Message-ID: <4637F691.7030809@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070502020814.A801113C455@mx1.freebsd.org> References: <20070502015352.12C1013C45D@mx1.freebsd.org> <004701c78c5d$83275a70$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20070502020814.A801113C455@mx1.freebsd.org>
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W. D. wrote:
> At 20:59 5/1/2007, Matt Emmerton wrote:
>> usw2# cd make++
>> usw2# ls -lt
>> total 5
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1221 May 1 18:35 Makefile
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 190 May 1 18:35 distinfo
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 643 May 1 18:35 pkg-plist
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 602 Oct 17 2004 pkg-descr
>> usw2# make install
>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5460: Malformed conditional
>> (defined(USE_RCORDER) || defined(USE_RC_SUBR) && ${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != "YES")
>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5470: Malformed conditional
>> (defined(USE_RC_SUBR) && ${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != "YES")
>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5481: if-less endif
>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5481: Need an operator
>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5958: if-less endif
>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5958: Need an operator
>> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>>
>> FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE
>>
>> Just ran cvsup. Any ideas?
>> ------
>>
>> The ports collection is only guaranteed to work on the current release of
>> FreeBSD, which is 6.2.
>> You're running 4.4-REL, which is fairly old (~5.5 years -- Sep/2001) and you
>> should consider upgrading.
>
> How do I do that without killing this production server?
>
>> --
>> Matt Emmerton
W.D.,
You can't unfortunately. The only way to go about this is plan out a
date when you can take down the server for approximately 1-5 hours
(comfortably) depending on what you need to compile / install, and the
speed of the machine.
Another option (not really encouraged, but available), is to take
cvsup, sync to the most current 5.5 / 6.2 tree, and compile, then take
down your machine quickly into single-user mode while installing the new
kernel / world. The process is in gross detail here:
<http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html>.
Also, did you know that your mail address probably is getting marked as
spam by the majority of the users on this list running anti-spam software?
Mark,
That's not true. The ports collection is supposed to work for all
versions of FreeBSD which are supported, which includes 5.x.
-Garrett
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