Subject: Re: bsd.pkg.mk broken?
To: MLH <mlh@goathill.org>
From: Tom Spindler <dogcow@babymeat.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/23/2004 00:29:15
> fresh pkg cvs, starting from scratch generates several hundred
> complaints along the lines of:
> 
> make: Unclosed variable specification for BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.(variable_x)
[elided]
> something wrong with bsd.buildlink3.mk or bsd.buildlink2.mk?

Try updating your mk/buildlink3/bsd.buildlink3.mk to the (just committed)
1.98; this fixes PR/24525, the problem you're describing.