On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 07:04:55 -0500, Doug Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure this is the best place for this, but I think it's the best > among the lists I'm on... > The best place would have been on the freebsd-ports mailing list. > I just tried, with a fresh ports tree, to build gmake after having > pkg_deleted it, and it failed because it couldn't find its own binary. > I "fixed" this by editing work/*/Makefile to say "make=make" instead > of "make=gmake," then doing (from the port top) "make", then in work/* > renaming make (the generated binary) to gmake and doing cp -p gmake > /usr/local/bin, and finally going to the port top again and doing > "make install clean." > Did you do a "make configure" before you pkg_deleted gmake? If you did, then that might have been why the Makefile had a gmake in it.
Try building gmake again as follows: cd /usr/ports/devel/gmake make deinstall make clean make install And let us know if that works. Scot PS. Moved to freebsd-ports mailing list. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"