Error installing MySQL server from ports

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Martyn Hill" <m.hill at stjamessengirls.org.uk> writes:

> I have upgraded the ports tree on our FreeBSD 4.5 box this morning in
> preparation to install MySQL.
> 
> Running "make fetch" in the databases/mysql5-server directory gives the
> following error and then stops.
> 
> "Makefile", line 156: Malformed conditional (exists(${DB_DIR}) &&
> defined(OVERWRITE_DB) && ${OVERWRITE_DB:L} != "no")
> "Makefile", line 159: Malformed conditional (!exists(${DB_DIR}) ||
> (defined(OVERWRITE_DB) && ${OVERWRITE_DB:L} != "no"))
> "Makefile", line 167: if-less endif
> "Makefile", line 167: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 181: if-less else
> "Makefile", line 181: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 201: if-less endif
> "Makefile", line 201: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> 
> I have tried each of the MySQL server versions 4, 4.1 and 5 with each giving
> similar errors (just different line numbers in the Makefile.)
> 
> Any ideas?

Sounds like you're not using the standard system make(1) program.

Try "/usr/bin/make fetch".