Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 22:34:51 -0800 From: Peter Hessler <freebsd-misc@theapt.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected Message-ID: <a05101001b8c474c19623@[208.201.244.160]> In-Reply-To: <20020324.225603.121860647.imp@village.org> References: <a05101000b8c4545cfe6c@[208.201.244.160]> <20020325174011.A24006@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <20020324.225603.121860647.imp@village.org>
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It looks like the make executable is bunk. I am using bsd make, not gmake. Now I need to generate make w/o make. (yay!) At 10:56 PM -0700 3/24/2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: >In message: <20020325174011.A24006@grimoire.chen.org.nz> > Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> writes: >: On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 08:28:08PM -0800, Peter Hessler wrote: >: > I am trying to update my 4.5-stable system, and I keep getting the >: > error "make: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected" >: >: The error text you're getting shows that you aren't using the standard >: make in /usr/bin. Looks like you're invoking GNU make instead - not a >: good idea; it should have been installed as "gmake" and not "make". > >It might also be due to a corrupt make binary. The kernel thinks it >is a shell script... > >Warner > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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