On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Todd Whitesel wrote:

> > On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Todd Whitesel wrote:
> > 
> > > uni:127# make ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES+=shareware
> > > ===>  xv-3.10apl1 Unacceptable license: shareware.
> > >         To build this package, add this line to your /etc/mk.conf:
> > >         ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES+=shareware
> > 
> > BSD makefile constructs aren't available on the command line. If you
> > don't want to do what the message says, try
> > 
> > make ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES=shareware
> 
> (whack) Duh. I just tried the environment method and it is happy now.
> 
> But why is the error message so darned obscure??

It wouldn't be so bad if it had just emitted the message quoted above,
and stopped. It's wierd that it kept going on to fail later.


Frederick