pw <woodpk@mindspring.com> wrote:

> <localhost:woodpk>/pkg_install% make 
> Makefile:6: *** missing separator.  Stop. 
> <localhost:woodpk>/pkg_install% 
> 
> Now, someone suggested to me that the 'make' I am using and the make 
> that is distributed by NetBSD are different.

[...]

> <localhost:woodpk>/pkg_install% make -v 
> GNU Make version 3.79, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath. 

> Do I need to find and build another 'make' utility, and can one system 
> have multiple 'make' utilities at one time? 

Yes and yes.  You can find the make you want at
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/incoming/sjg/ (called "bmake").   You may want
to rename your original "make" to "gmake" to avoid confusion.

-Jan

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