make cleandir fails

Matt Smith smimat64 at email.pct.edu
Thu Mar 4 20:11:18 PST 2004



Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> At 10:04 PM -0500 3/4/04, Matt Smith wrote:
> 
>> make cleandir fails, line 733
>>
>> "/usr/src/Makefile.inc1", line 773: warning: String comparison 
>> operator should be either == or !=
>> "/usr/src/Makefile.inc1", line 773: Malformed conditional 
>> ((!defined(NO_RESCUE) ||  defined(RELEASEDIR)) &&  (${TARGET_ARCH} !
>> = ${MACHINE_ARCH} || ${BOOTSTRAPPING} < 501101))
>> "/usr/src/Makefile.inc1", line 773: Missing dependency operator
>> "/usr/src/Makefile.inc1", line 775: if-less endif
>> "/usr/src/Makefile.inc1", line 775: Need an operator
>> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>> *** Error code 1
>>
>> ${BOOTSTRAPPING} appears to be a string.
> 
> 
> What release of freebsd are you running right now?  (not "what are
> you upgrading to?", but "what do you already have installed?")
> 
> It is extremely likely your version of make is not quite modern
> enough.  Try:    make upgrade_checks
> before trying the 'make cleandir'.
> 

5.1

as for me, moot point now... managed to break something badly, and I 
figure it'll be easier to install over from CD than work on fixing it. 
(I have no problem doing this, it's just a computer I'm playing around on.)


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