VMware Tools and Open VM Tools on FreeBSD 9 (the error message from ports)

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On 2. May 2012, at 23:26 , Forrest Aldrich wrote:

> I suppose it would have been helpful if I included the actual error message from the port here :-)  Sorry about that omission.
> ..

> Making all in modules
> make VM_UNAME=9.0-RELEASE MV=mv RM=rm       OVT_SOURCE_DIR=/usr/ports/emulators/open-vm-tools/work/open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873                  MODULEBUILDDIR=/usr/ports/emulators/open-vm-tools/work/open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873/modules/freebsd          -C "/usr/ports/emulators/open-vm-tools/work/open-vm-tools-8.6.0-425873/modules/freebsd/vmmemctl"
> "/sys/conf/kmod.mk", line 116: Malformed conditional (${MK_CLANG_IS_CC} == "no" && ${CC:T:Mclang} != "clang")
> "/sys/conf/kmod.mk", line 120: if-less endif
> "/sys/conf/kern.mk", line 18: Malformed conditional (${MK_CLANG_IS_CC} != "no" || ${CC:T:Mclang} == "clang")
> "/sys/conf/kern.mk", line 32: if-less endif
> "/sys/conf/kern.mk", line 102: Malformed conditional (${MK_CLANG_IS_CC} != "no" || ${CC:T:Mclang} == "clang")
> "/sys/conf/kern.mk", line 108: if-less endif
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> *** Error code 1

Your base system world is too old; /usr/share/mk is out of date.  You may try to use make -m /usr/src/share/mk ...

/bz

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