make release error

[Lowell Gilbert]

Maxim Vetrov <muxas at mail.ru> writes:

> I'm running 5.4 and trying to make release of 6.0.

You do realize the documentation says that's not supported, right?
You're kind of on your own there.

>                                                    While making
> release, I got next error:
> 
> ...
> cvs checkout: Updating doc/zh_TW.Big5/share
> cvs checkout: Updating doc/zh_TW.Big5/share/sgml
> if [ -d /usr/src/release/../../ports/distfiles/ ]; then  cp -rp
> /usr/src/release/../../ports/distfiles
> /data/RELEASE_60/bin/usr/ports/distfiles;  else  mkdir -p
> /data/RELEASE_60/bin/usr/ports/distfiles;  fi
> make: don't know how to make checksum-recursive. Stop
> *** Error code 2
> 
> Stop in /usr/src/release.
> *** Error code 1
> ...
> 
> What might cause it?

Seems like a mismatch between the 5.4 and 6.0 makefiles.  
If you try pointing off to the new makefiles, you might be able to
get past this particular issue.