thunderbird-3.1.10 build error

[Robert Bonomi]

> From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org  Sun May  8 12:15:43 2011
> From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org>
> To: Janos Dohanics <web at 3dresearch.com>
> Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 13:14:36 -0400
> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: thunderbird-3.1.10 build error
>
> Janos Dohanics <web at 3dresearch.com> writes:
>
> > Trying to build thunderbird-3.1.10 on a FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64 
> > machine and getting this error:
> >
> > gmake[4]: Entering directory 
> > `/usr/ports/mail/thunderbird/work/comm-1.9.2/mailnews/import' gmake[6]: 
> > Entering directory 
> > `/usr/ports/mail/thunderbird/work/comm-1.9.2/mailnews/extensions/smime/b
> > uild' Makefile:84: *** missing separator.  Stop. gmake[6]: Leaving 
> > directory 

The apparent culprit is indicated in the line above -- a syntax error in
the Makefile for building 'smime'.

If you underestand makefile syntax, check out that file, circa 'line 84'
THE most common makefile error is leading _spaces_ on an action line, instead
of a 'tab' ([HT], '\t', 0x08) character.

[[..  sneck traceback  ..]]

> > `/usr/ports/mail/thunderbird/work/comm-1.9.2' gmake: *** [default] 
> > Error 2
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports/mail/thunderbird.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports/mail/thunderbird.
> >
> > I'd appreciate your expert advice...
>
> The actual error was earlier than you quoted.

It _was_ there, just not at the end of things.  :)

>                                               Are you trying to run a 
> parallel build?

Reading the full trace _DID_ show a parallel build.