Randy Beaudreault <maccult@pacbell.net> writes:

> [the-beast:/Volumes/NetBSD/pkgsrc] maccult% bmake readme
> Starting README.html generation: Fri Sep 19 12:38:37 PDT 2003
> 
> Extracting configuration variables:
> 
> Makefile:25: *** missing separator.  Stop.
> Error:  make show-var VARNAME=DISTDIR in 
> /Volumes/NetBSD/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkglint

Could you try the patch? 

Index: mkreadme
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/mk/scripts/mkreadme,v
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -u -r1.3 mkreadme
--- mkreadme	2003/05/06 17:42:05	1.3
+++ mkreadme	2003/09/20 07:21:25
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@
 
     for v in DISTDIR PACKAGES PKGREPOSITORYSUBDIR PKG_SUFX MACHINE_ARCH PKG_URL OPSYS OS_VERSION FTP_PKG_URL_HOST FTP_PKG_URL_DIR CDROM_PKG_URL_HOST CDROM_PKG_URL_DIR
     do
-	val=`make show-var VARNAME=${v}`
+	val=`${BMAKE} show-var VARNAME=${v}`
 	if [ $? != 0 ]; then
 	    echo "Error:  make show-var VARNAME=${v} in `pwd` "
 	    echo "Failed.  This is a fatal error"

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