Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:58:44AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> I've been asked to upgrade some software on an older FreeBSD 4.x box.  (The
> owner is getting ready to move to a new box with 4.11 but can't take the
> machine out of production just yet.) I upgraded all of the ports via CVS, and
> then discovered that none of them would build. When I try to build a port,
> I get messages like
> 
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4852: Malformed conditional (defined(USE_RCORDER) || defined(USE_RC_SUBR) && ${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != "YES")
> 
> I'm not sure, but it appears that the master Makefile for the ports collection
> was updated during the CVS update and requires features that the "make" utility 
> which shipped with that version of FreeBSD doesn't have. (Correct me if I'm
> wrong here, but that's what it looks like at first glance.) How can I build 
> ports on that box? Note that I may be in a bit of a Catch-22 situation,
> since any solution that requires installing a new "make" won't work if I have
> to build it from a port.

Fortunately, make is not built from a port.  You need to update your
version of FreeBSD to use ports on that box.

Kris
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