is your make a BSD make?
 - it looks like a gnu make.

pw writes:
 > 
 > On Monday, December 17, 2001, at 05:04 , Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 > 
 > >>
 > > pkg_* sources are in
 > > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install
 > >
 > 
 > 
 > I have retrieved the sources from this directory, but when I run a 
 > 'make', this is the output i get:
 > 
 > <localhost:root>/pkg_install% make
 > Makefile:6: *** missing separator.  Stop.
 > <localhost:root>/pkg_install%
 > 

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Rex McMaster