vba error

[Kent Stewart]

On Saturday 15 May 2004 09:14 am, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> # jarnold at knightridder.com / 2004-05-15 11:59:54 -0400:
> > spike# /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu
> > Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
> > wait..===> emulators/vba failed:
> > "/home/ports/emulators/vba/Makefile", line 31: warning: String
> > comparison operator should be either == or !=
> > "/home/ports/emulators/vba/Makefile", line 31: Malformed
> > conditional ((${OSVERSION} < 500035))
> > "/home/ports/emulators/vba/Makefile", line 31: Missing dependency
> > operator "/home/ports/emulators/vba/Makefile", line 33: if-less
> > endif "/home/ports/emulators/vba/Makefile", line 33: Need an
> > operator make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> > *** Error code 1
> > 1 error
> >
> > *******************************************************************
> >* Before reporting this error, verify that you are running a
> > supported version of FreeBSD (see http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/)
>
>     which says:
>
>     The Ports Collection supports the latest release on the
> FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE branches. Older releases are not
> supported and may or may not work correctly with an up-to-date ports
> collection. Over time, changes to the ports collection may rely on
> features that are not present in older releases.  Wherever
> convenient, we try not to gratuitously break support for recent
> releases, but it is sometimes unavoidable. When this occurs, patches
> contributed by the user community to maintain support for older
> releases will usually be committed.
>

It also looks like another of those extraneous "(" ")" pairs on
.if (${OSVERSION} < 500035)

From what has happened in the past, remove the outside pair around 
OSVERSION such that you have ".if $(OSVERSION"  and you shouldn't have 
any problem.

Kent
> > FreeBSD spike 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #3: Mon Dec  2 19:23:24
> > EST 2002     root at spike:/usr/src/sys/compile/MYBSD  i386

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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