getting an old server up to scratch...

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-12-20 19:23, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 12/20/05, Jeff D. Hamann <jeff.hamann at forestinformatics.com> wrote:
>> I've been trying to build a new server and I've gotten to stage where I can
>> start moving some of the data over from the old server. In the process I've
>> decided to move my version control software from cvs to svn and have been
>> using svn nicely now for some time. My old machine is a FreeBSD 4.4 machine
>> and the ports trees simply doesn't work anymore. I only get:
>>
>> stimpy# cd /usr/ports/devel/cvs2svn
>> stimpy# make install
>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4942: Malformed conditional
>> (defined(USE_RCORDER) || defined(USE_RC_SUBR) && ${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != "YES")
>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4952: Malformed conditional
>> (defined(USE_RC_SUBR) && ${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != "YES")
>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4963: if-less endif
>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4963: Need an operator
>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5272: if-less endif
>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5272: Need an operator
>> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>> stimpy#
>
> Have you tryed updating your ports system with cvsup and/or updating
> that system to 4.11 (RELENG_4_11) ?

Nikolas, sorry for hijacking your reply, I missed the original post.

4.4 is *very* old.  It's possible that there are makefile constructs in
the makefiles of the Ports infrastructure that were not supported by
make(1) back then.

How difficult/risky would it be to update your base-system to some more
modern version of the 4.X branch, i.e. RELENG_4?

- Giorgos