Problems building FreeBSD 9.2 on FreeBSD 10

[Simon J. Gerraty]

>> Why not use fmake in that scenario?
>
>That might work.   Is using the devel/fmake port sufficient for using fmake?

So long as it is recent enough to have :tu and :tl I would expect so.

>If I typed "make something", is there a way inside the make environment to
>detect if bmake or fmake was invoked, and error out appropriately?

You can test for bmake with

.if defined(.PARSEDIR)

lack of that means fmake.