why does buildworld fail on stable/11 ?

[Ian Lepore]

On Wed, 2018-01-24 at 12:39 +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 24 Jan 2018, at 09:51, Scott Bennett <bennett at sdf.org> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Subject: Re: why does buildworld fail on stable/11 ?
> > 
> >     I wrote:
> > > 
> > >    On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 12:42:58 +0000 lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > On 22/01/2018 09:17, Scott Bennett wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > >    Anyway, I'm stuck.  Can someone please tell me what is going wrong and
> > > > > how to fix it?  I'd really like to be able to update my system, not only to
> > > > > keep it reasonably current, but also to be able to customize a kernel.  Thanks
> > > > > in advance for any suggestions/solutions.
> >     [much deleted  --SB]
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > then
> > > > 
> > > > [/usr/src #] make cleandir && make clean && make buildworld && make
> > > > buildkernel && make installkernel && mergemaster -p
> > >    At this point, that looks very optimistic, to say the least. :-)  I've
> > > tried "make cleanworld" (with /etc/make.conf still in place), and it failed
> > > exactly like the buildworld example I posted before.
> >     Okay.  Here's what happened.
> > 
> > Script started on Wed Jan 24 02:17:30 2018
> > hellas#	mv /etc/make.conf{,.save}
> > hellas#	mv /etc/src.conf{,.save}
> > hellas#	cd /usr/src
> > hellas#	make cleandir
> > "/usr/src/share/mk/local.sys.mk", line 51: Malformed conditional (${.MAKE.MODE:Mmeta*} != "")
> > "/usr/src/share/mk/local.sys.mk", line 58: Malformed conditional (${.MAKE.MODE:Mnofilemon} == "")
> > "/usr/src/share/mk/local.sys.mk", line 76: if-less else
> > "/usr/src/share/mk/local.sys.mk", line 79: if-less endif
> > "/usr/src/share/mk/sys.mk", line 476: if-less endif
> > bmake: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> Looks like your make is broken.  What is the output of "which make"?
> 
> -Dimitry
> 

And also the output of "make -V MAKE_VERSION".  To me, this looks a lot
like what happens when you try to use old fmake from freebsd 8 to build
modern freebsd source.

-- Ian