I solved the problem with using Perl 5.10.0 on FreeBSD 7. But it is not stable.

Quoting Jay Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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/
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