Make is broken! How to fix?

[Beech Rintoul]

On Tuesday 01 May 2007, W. D. said:
> At 21:06 5/1/2007, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> >W. D. wrote:
> >> usw2# cd make++
> >> usw2# ls -lt
> >> total 5
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1221 May  1 18:35 Makefile
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   190 May  1 18:35 distinfo
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   643 May  1 18:35 pkg-plist
> >> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   602 Oct 17  2004 pkg-descr
> >> usw2# make install
> >> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5460: Malformed conditional
> >
> >(defined(USE_RCORDER) || defined(USE_RC_SUBR) && ${USE_RC_SUBR:U}
> > != "YES")
> >
> >> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5470: Malformed conditional
> >
> >(defined(USE_RC_SUBR) && ${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != "YES")
> >
> >> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5481: if-less endif
> >> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5481: Need an operator
> >> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5958: if-less endif
> >> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5958: Need an operator
> >> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> >>
> >> FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE
> >>
> >> Just ran cvsup.  Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Thanks for your help!
> >
> >4.x hasn't been supported for some weeks. Please update to a newer
> >version of FreeBSD (6.x preferred).
>
> Also, just remembered.  The server is running Plesk
> server management software.  (Also, an older version.)
> If I upgreade to 6.2, it will kill Plesk.
>
> Any other ideas?

Can't help you with Plesk, but the last good ports collection is now 
tagged RELEASE_4_EOL. You can cvsup using that tag. After that any 
upgrades are on you. Also bear in mind that security fixes are no 
longer supported on that branch. All of the 4.x build tools have been 
removed from the tree, so ports after that will not build.

As for a production server, you should do a clean build on another 
server and migrate your files over. There have been significant 
filesystem improvements since 4.x and just doing an update will not 
get you the benefits.

As for a version 6.2 is much preferred over 5.x.

Beech



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