why does buildworld fail on stable/11 ?

[Scott Bennett]

Dimitry Andric <dim at FreeBSD.org> 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"?
>
hellas# echo $PATH
/usr/local/libexec/ccache:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/root/bin
hellas# which make
/usr/bin/make
hellas# file /usr/bin/make
/usr/bin/make: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), statically linked, for FreeBSD 11.1 (1101506), FreeBSD-style, stripped
hellas# 

     Thanks, both of you, for something to try.  With enough ideas, maybe
the problem can be uncovered.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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