On Monday 18 April 2005 08:58, Brett Glass wrote: > I've been asked to upgrade some software on an older FreeBSD 4.x box. (The > owner is getting ready to move to a new box with 4.11 but can't take the > machine out of production just yet.) I upgraded all of the ports via CVS, > and then discovered that none of them would build. When I try to build a > port, I get messages like > > "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 4852: Malformed conditional > (defined(USE_RCORDER) || defined(USE_RC_SUBR) && ${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != "YES") > > I'm not sure, but it appears that the master Makefile for the ports > collection was updated during the CVS update and requires features that the > "make" utility which shipped with that version of FreeBSD doesn't have. > (Correct me if I'm wrong here, but that's what it looks like at first > glance.) How can I build ports on that box? Note that I may be in a bit of > a Catch-22 situation, since any solution that requires installing a new > "make" won't work if I have to build it from a port.
The canonical solution is to upgrade world & kernel to 4.11. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"