Subject: Re: Makeing current
To: John Maier <jmaier@midamerica.net>
From: Chris Pinnock <cjep@fawlty.net>
List: netbsd-ports
Date: 01/16/2002 12:21:40
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:30:16PM -0600, John Maier wrote:
> I'm trying my hand at building a NetBSD-current build.
> 
> I fetch all the src tars from the current directory and extracted them into the /usr/src
> directory...set the DISTDIR and RELEASEDIR env variables.
> 
> When I attempt a build...
> 
> mail2:/usr/src>make distrib
> "Makefile", line 121: Malformed conditional (${USETOOLS} == "yes")
> "Makefile", line 121: Need an operator
> "Makefile", line 123: if-less endif
> "Makefile", line 123: Need an operator
> Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> 
> just to make sure, I'm currently supping allsrc...but are there some tips or things I can
> do to help the build...

Looks like you need to use a more up to date make or use the build.sh
script in /usr/src. There are files called UPDATING and BUILDING in /usr/src 
which you might find useful. 

with best wishes,
-- 
Chris