Makefile problems in /usr/ports

[Jim Mock]

On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 01:18  AM, Paul A. Hoadley wrote:
> Hello,

Hi,

> I've been having trouble lately with Makefiles in /usr/ports for ports 
> of Perl applications.  For example:
>
> grover:/usr/ports/mail/p5-Mail-SpamAssassin> make
> "Makefile", line 27: Malformed conditional (${PERL_LEVEL} < 500600)
> "Makefile", line 27: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 30: if-less endif
> "Makefile", line 30: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 32: Malformed conditional (${PERL_LEVEL} < 500800)
> "Makefile", line 32: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 34: if-less endif
> "Makefile", line 34: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>
> I was getting this when running 4.7, but I just upgraded to 4.8-STABLE
> today, and it persists.  Have I somehow got /usr/bin/make out of sync?

Two questions:

1) How old is your ports tree?

2) Do you have make aliased to gmake in your shell or any other such 
silliness?

- jim

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