/usr/src make problem

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:23:29PM -0700, Mark Probert wrote:
> Hi .. 
> 
>  On Thursday 12 May 2005 13:47, Mark Probert wrote:
> > Hi ..
> >
> > I have just updated my source tree, gone into /usr/src, and have the
> > following error:
> >
> > kant# make -j4 buildworld
> > Makefile:92: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> >
> (Many thanks to csghost for the help.)
> 
> Just to record the solution, here is how to fix this problem.
> 
> The issue is that GNU make is being called rather than /usr/bin/make.  On my 
> system (5.3-RELEASE), GNU make had blown away /usr/bin/make and replaced it 
> with a symlink to /usr/local/bin/gmake.  (I guess this happened when I did a 
> "pkg_add -r gmake".  Perhaps this should be reported as a "bug" ... )

No, it didn't.  In order to damage your system in this way you need to
take some other form of manual action.

Kris
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