why does buildworld fail on stable/11 ?

[Scott Bennett]

Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
hellas# make -V MAKE_VERSION
20170720
hellas#


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