Perl 5.8.8 Compile

[Jay Hall]

I received the same error with both make and gmake.

Thanks,


Jay


On Thu, May 1, 2008 at  8:30 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> Jay Hall <jhall at vandaliamo.net> writes:
>
>> I am attempting to compile Perl 5.8.8 on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE.  I make
>> it through the configuration just fine, but when I attempt to run the
>> make command, I receive the following error message.  I am creating a
>> custom install.  The only parameter I am changing is the installation
>> location.
>>
>> make: don't know how to make <command-line>. Stop.
>>
>> I have run make depend, and it finishes without any problems.
>>
>> I'm sure this is something simple I am missing because I have been
>> looking at the problem for so long.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your assistance.
>
> Even for non-standard location installs, I recommend using the ports
> instead of building yourself, but if you really want to do it by hand,
> expect to need to know a bit more about what you're doing.  In this
> case, I suspect you need to use gmake instead of (the native) make.
>
> -- 
> Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
> 		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/