unassociated shell command

Jason Helfman jhelfman at e-e.com
Thu Jan 12 06:45:40 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:25:26PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith thus spake:
>On 01/11/2012 10:14 PM, Da Rock wrote:
>>>>>> I'm still very new to this, but I'm almost complete on my first
>>>>>> port. I
>>>>>> do have an unusual error which crops up from time to time and I'm
>>>>>> usually able to fudge along and clear it- but this last little bit
>>>>>> won't
>>>>>> clear!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The particular lines in question are as follows:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> post-extract:
>>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>> .if defined(NOPORTDOCS)
>>>>>> @if [ -d ${WRKDIR}/usr/share/doc ]; then \
>>>>>> ${RM} -rf ${WRKDIR}/usr/share/doc; \
>>>>>> fi
>>>>>> PLIST_SUB+="@comment "
>>>>>> .else
>>>>>> PLIST_SUB+= PORTDOCS=""
>>>>>> .endif
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and I get the following error make -DNOPORTDOCS install:
>>>>>> "Makefile", line 59: Unassociated shell command "@if [ -d
>>>>>> ${WRKDIR}/usr/share/doc ]; then ${RM} -rf ${WRKDIR}/usr/share/doc; fi"
>>>>>> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What am I possibly missing? No googling helps, and I've tried many
>>>>>> different tricks that have worked in the past as ${DIRRM}, ${RM},
>>>>>> individual directory/file removal, etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The indentation is exactly as in the Makefile.

Is the indentation whitespace, or using tabs? It should be tabs, in my
experience.

-jgh

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