FreeBSD Port: sysutils/wmmemload

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 2 20:41:38 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:24:50PM +0200, martinko wrote:
> sysutils/wmmemload port fails to install:
> /the latest ports tree on 6-STABLE/
>
> ===>  Checking if sysutils/wmmemload already installed
> Making install in src
> "Makefile", line 265: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 266: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 267: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 268: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 269: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 270: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 271: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 272: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 276: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 277: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 278: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 279: Missing dependency operator
> "Makefile", line 283: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 284: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 285: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 286: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> *** Error code 1

sysutils/wmmemload/Makefile needs USE_GMAKE=yes.  The above errors are
the sign of a software author using GNU-style syntaxed Makefiles.

Please open a PR on this issue and someone will take care of it.  :-)

For now, try using "gmake" instead of "make" when building this port.

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